THIRD SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 44298/09
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
against the Republic of Moldova
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 2 June 2015 as a Chamber composed of:
Josep Casadevall, President,
Luis López Guerra,
Ján Šikuta,
Kristina Pardalos,
Johannes Silvis,
Valeriu Griţco,
Branko Lubarda, judges,
and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 17 August 2009,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The applicant, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is an organisation registered in the Unites States of America. It was represented before the Court by Mr J. P. Rupp and Ms A. Melia, lawyers practising in London.
The Moldovan Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr L. Apostol.
The applicant complained under Article 6 and under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention about the unfairness of civil proceedings in which it had been involved in Moldova as defendants in proceedings initiated against it by a local non-governmental organisation.
On 20 May 2015 the applicant’s representatives informed the Court that the applicant wanted to withdraw the application since in 2012 they had reached a friendly settlement agreement with the other party in the domestic proceedings and that that agreement had been successfully implemented in the past years. They informed the Court that in such circumstances they had realised that their organisation’s charitable purposes would not be best served by maintaining the application before the Court.
In a letter dated 26 May 2015 the Government welcomed the applicant organisation’s decision to withdraw its application and stressed that they had not exercised any pressure on the applicant organisation in order to determine it to withdraw the application from the Court.
THE LAW
In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention or its Protocols, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.
Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.
Done in English and notified in writing on 25 June 2015.
Stephen PhillipsJosep Casadevall
RegistrarPresident
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