Communicated on 21 December 2020
Published on 25 January 2021
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 41437/16
Aco SPASOVSKI against North Macedonia
and 14 other applications
(see list appended)
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
All applications concern civil proceedings in which the applicants (all Macedonians/ citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia) were ordered to pay a standing charge to a private heating company for the apartments (that they own and/or live in), which were disconnected (or have never been connected) from the district heating system. The present applications are part of a larger group of similar cases registered with the Court, following the leading case Strezovski and Others [v. North Macedonia, nos. 14460/16 and 7 others, 27 February 2020].
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
Was the system in which the heating standing charge operated in the applicants’ cases compatible with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the Convention? Did the way in which the domestic courts interpreted and applied the applicable rules impose an excessive individual burden on the applicants (see Strezovski and Others v. North Macedonia, nos. 14460/16 and 7 others, 27 February 2020)?
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Place of Residence
Represented by
1
41437/16
Spasovski v. North Macedonia
14/07/2016
Aco SPASOVSKI
1955
Skopje
2
41448/16
Bozhinovska v. North Macedonia
14/07/2016
Violeta BOZHINOVSKA
1967
Skopje
3
54551/16
Trajkov v. North Macedonia
07/09/2016
Petar TRAJKOV
1938
Skopje
4
76331/16
Stojanovski v. North Macedonia
02/12/2016
Kosta STOJANOVSKI
1955
Skopje
5
76341/16
Mihajlovska v. North Macedonia
02/12/2016
Aleksandra MIHAJLOVSKA
1977
Skopje
6
77252/16
Spasovski v. North Macedonia
02/12/2016
Aco SPASOVSKI
1955
Skopje
7
77253/16
Spasovski v. North Macedonia
02/12/2016
Aco SPASOVSKI
1955
8
8618/17
Psaltirov v. North Macedonia
23/01/2017
Ilija PSALTIROV
1973
Skopje
Misho ZHIVKOVSKI
9
14994/17
Psaltirov v. North Macedonia
16/02/2017
Ilija PSALTIROV
1973
Skopje
Misho ZHIVKOVSKI
10
16288/17
Misovski v. North Macedonia
21/02/2017
Zoran MISOVSKI
Skopje
11
16289/17
Misovski v. North Macedonia
21/02/2017
Zoran MISOVSKI
Skopje
12
30183/17
Vasilevski v. North Macedonia
13/04/2017
Zoran VASILEVSKI
1969
Skopje
Maja VASILEVSKA
1974
Skopje
13
12476/18
Psaltirov v. North Macedonia
08/03/2018
Ilija PSALTIROV
1973
Skopje
Misho ZHIVKOVSKI
14
38892/19
Law Firm Trpenoski v. North Macedonia
16/07/2019
LAW FIRM TRPENOSKI
Skopje
Natasha TRPENOSKA-TRENCHEVSKA
15
43850/20
Nenov v. North Macedonia
21/09/2020
Marjan NENOV
1976
Skopje
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