Published on 13 June 2022
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 30005/13
Valeri Stoyanov STOYANOV and Valentin Stoyanov TABAKOV
against Bulgaria
lodged on 13 April 2013
communicated on 25 May 2022
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
Both applicants are lawyers in private practice. They claim that the manner in which (a) the use of special means of surveillance and (b) the retention and subsequent acquisition of communications data are regulated in Bulgaria does not ensure proper protection against arbitrary or abusive secret surveillance or acquisition of communications data. They rely in those two respects on Articles 6, 8 and 13 of the Convention.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Have there been breaches of the applicants’ rights under Article 8 of the Convention on account of the manner in which the use of special means of surveillance and the retention and subsequent acquisition of communications data are regulated in Bulgaria (see Ekimdzhiev and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 70078/12, §§ 247, 262-77, 291-359, 361, 371-84 and 394-421, 11 January 2022)?