A.A. v. SWITZERLAND
Doc ref: 17298/90 • ECHR ID: 001-1468
Document date: January 11, 1993
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AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF
Application No. 17298/90
by A.A.
against Switzerland
The European Commission of Human Rights sitting in private on
11 January 1993, the following members being present:
MM. C.A. NØRGAARD, President
J.A. FROWEIN
G. SPERDUTI
E. BUSUTTIL
G. JÖRUNDSSON
A. WEITZEL
J.-C. SOYER
H.G. SCHERMERS
H. DANELIUS
Mrs. G. H. THUNE
Sir Basil HALL
MM. F. MARTINEZ
C.L. ROZAKIS
Mrs. J. LIDDY
MM. L. LOUCAIDES
J.-C. GEUS
M.P. PELLONPÄÄ
B. MARXER
G.B. REFFI
Mr. H.C. KRÜGER, Secretary to the Commission
Having regard to Article 25 of the Convention for the Protection
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;
Having regard to the application introduced on 1 October 1990 by
A.A. against Switzerland and registered on 15 October 1990 under file
No. 17298/90;
Having regard to the report provided for in Rule 47 of the Rules
of Procedure of the Commission;
Having deliberated;
Decides as follows:
THE FACTS
The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be
summarised as follows.
The applicant, a Swiss citizen and businessman, resided at
Buttisholz in Switzerland. He died in 1991. His heirs are the widow,
Mrs. R.A.-W., and his four children, M.H.-A., R.A.A., S.A. and E.A.
The applicant was represented before the Commission by
Mr. L.A. Minelli, a lawyer residing at Forch in Switzerland, who is now
also representing the applicant's heirs before the Commission.
A. Particular circumstances of the case
I.
In 1977/78 various companies, which the three S. brothers had
founded in the Canton of Uri, merged with two building firms, A.B. AG
and C.B. AG in the Canton of Lucerne whose board members were the
applicant and a certain R.B.
In May 1981 the Investigating Office (Verhöramt) of the Canton
of Uri instituted criminal investigations against various persons
involved in the new company.
On 21 March 1986 the Uri Public Prosecutor's Office
(Staatsanwaltschaft) indicted altogether 14 persons, among them the
applicant. The latter was indicted of forging documents
(Urkundenfälschung), obtaining a false registration (Erschleichung
einer falschen Beurkundung), fraud (Betrug) and misappropriation of
funds (Veruntreuung).
According to a time-table issued on 28 October 1986 by the Uri
Regional Court (Landgericht), the trial began on 17 November 1986. The
applicant was heard on 18 November, 2 December 1986 and 19 January
1987. At this last hearing the applicant put forward various requests
for the taking of evidence.
On 12 March 1987 the Uri Regional Court convicted the applicant
of forging documents, obtaining a false registration and
misappropriation of funds, and sentenced him to four years'
imprisonment. The other co-accused were convicted and received prison
sentences of between four months and five years and 10 months.
The judgment counted 136 pages. It listed in detail the final
requests of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the defence as well as
the final statements (Schlussanträge) of the accused.
With regard to the applicant's requests at the hearing for the
taking of further evidence the Court found, with reference to Section
180 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canton of Uri
(Strafprozessordnung; see below Relevant domestic law), that these
requests had been filed out of time. The Court further noted that all
the parties to the proceedings had had the possibility to be present
when the co-accused were interrogated, and themselves to put questions.
II.
On 6 August 1987 the applicant filed an appeal (Berufung) against
this decision with the Court of Appeal (Obergericht) of the Canton of
Uri. Therein he requested inter alia that certain persons be
questioned, certain documents be handed out, and the preparation of an
expert opinion be ordered.
On 28 October 1987 the applicant filed a further request for the
taking of evidence.
In the ensuing appeal proceedings the Court of Appeal first heard
twelve other co-accused. Each co-accused was heard individually, the
Public Prosecutor, the accused and his lawyer being present. The
subject of each hearing concerned the charges brought against the
respective co-accused. According to Section 33 para. 2 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure of the Canton of Uri the oral submissions of the
Public Prosecutor and the defence were not recorded in the minutes
(Protokoll).
The applicant was heard on 1 June 1988. During the hearing the
Public Prosecutor relied on statements made by the applicant or the
other co-accused when they had been heard.
By dates of 1, 15 and 29 June 1988 the Court of Appeal of the
Canton of Uri gave its judgment. It convicted the applicant of the
offences of forging documents, obtaining a false registration, fraud
and embezzlement of funds, and sentenced him to five years'
imprisonment.
The judgment stated at the outset that on grounds of
practicability the applicant's appeal proceedings had been separated
from those concerning other accused.
Under the heading "Requests for the taking of evidence according
to statement of 6 August 1987" ("Beweisergänzungsbegehren gemäss
Eingabe vom 6. August 1987"), p. 5 the Court of Appeal found that it
was permissible for a Canton to enact a provision such as Section 180
of the Code of Criminal Procedure which required the compliance with
certain formal conditions. The Court found that in any event defects
of the right to a fair hearing in the first instance proceedings could
be healed in the course of the appeal hearing if the appeal court
enjoyed full jurisdiction. The Court then explained with regard to the
requests for the taking of evidence why they had to be rejected, inter
alia, as the matter was clear ("das Beweisthema gilt als erstellt").
The Court of Appeal further addressed the applicant's complaint
that he had not been present when the co-accused were heard, and that
therefore their statements should not be used against him. The Court
found that the applicant had had the possibility during the
investigations, in the framework of the right to consult the case-file,
to submit further written questions and to ask for the questioning of
further witnesses. This the applicant had in fact done, though some
of the requests had been filed out of time.
In its judgment the Court of Appeal then dealt in detail with the
various points raised by the applicant in his appeal against the
conviction and sentence of the Regional Court.
III.
The applicant filed a plea of nullity (Nichtigkeitsbeschwerde)
against the decision of the Court of Appeal which was dismissed by the
Federal Court (Bundesgericht) on 29 March 1990.
The applicant also filed a public law appeal (staatsrechtliche
Beschwerde) with the Federal Court. Therein he complained inter alia
that no minutes had been prepared of the Court of Appeal hearing; it
was impossible many months later when preparing the Court judgment to
remember what had been said by the Prosecutor also in favour of the
applicant.
The applicant further complained that the Court of Appeal had
regarded the requests for the taking of evidence at the Regional Court
hearing as being out of time. With reference to Article 6 of the
Convention, he stated that the Court of Appeal had been excessively
formal when distinguishing, according to Section 180 para. 1 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, which requests for the taking of evidence
could be made before entering into the merits of the case, and which
could be made during the oral submissions.
The applicant also complained that as he never had had the
possibility to put complementary questions to the co-accused, and yet
the lower courts had relied on their statements when assessing the
evidence, the decision was unjust.
The Federal Court dismissed the applicant's public law appeal on
29 March 1990. The decision, numbering 59 pages, was served on the
applicant on 18 May 1990.
In respect of the applicant's complaint that the Court of Appeal
had applied Section 180 of the Code of Criminal Procedure with
excessive formalism, the Federal Court considered that any defect in
the right to a fair hearing was healed if the person concerned had the
possibility to express himself before an appeal body which had the
jurisdiction freely to examine all those questions which could have
been put before the lower court.
With regard to the applicant's complaints that no minutes had
been prepared on the hearing before the Court of Appeal, the Federal
Court found that the Court of Appeal had acted in accordance with the
law, namely Section 33 of the Uri Code of Criminal Procedure.
According to the constant practice of the Court of Appeal, only the
requests (Anträge) of the parties to the proceedings were recorded in
the minutes; no violation of constitutional rights could be seen
therein. The Court continued:
[Translation]
"If the rule mentioned complies with the Constitution, it does
not become unconstitutional if criminal proceedings are conducted
against a number of participants... The applicant maintains that
due to the absence of any minutes he was unable to ascertain what
was stated in the proceedings against the co-accused. To this
the reply must be given that according to the practice of the
Court of Appeal he could have learned about the requests of the
parties from the minutes and about the respective oral
submissions from the notes of the pleadings of the other lawyers,
if due to time constraints he could not, or did not want to,
participate in all the hearings. There was in any event no
violation of constitutional rights."
[German]
"Hält die erwähnte Regelung vor der Verfassung stand, so wird sie
nicht dadurch verfassungswidrig, dass ein Strafverfahren gegen
mehrere Beteiligte geführt wird ... Wenn der Beschwerdeführer
vorbringt, er habe wegen Fehlens des Protokolls nicht feststellen
können, was in den Verfahren gegen die Mitangeklagten vorgetragen
worden sei, so ist ihm entgegenzuhalten, dass er nach der
erwähnten Praxis des Obergerichts die Anträge der
Verfahrensbeteiligten dem Protokoll und die dazu gemachten
mündlichen Ausführungen den Plädoyernotizen der andern Anwälte
entnehmen konnte, wenn er wegen zeitlicher Überforderung nicht
allen Verhandlungen beiwohnen konnte oder wollte. Eine
Verletzung verfassungsmässiger Rechte liegt jedenfalls nicht
vor." (p. 9).
With regard to the applicant's complaints that he had never had
the possibility at least once to be present when the co-accused were
questioned and to put complementary questions to them, the Federal
Court found that in view of the extraordinary complexity of the case
it was understandable that the applicant was not personally invited to
every questioning of every co-accused. The Court noted that the
applicant actually admitted having been able to consult the statements
of the co-accused. The Court concluded (p. 20) that "as long as he had
the possibility to put complementary questions in writing and to call
up new witnesses, (Article 6 para. 3 of the Convention) is not
violated" ("Hatte er aber die Möglichkeit, schriftliche
Ergänzungsfragen zu stellen und neue Zeugen anzurufen, so ist (Artikel
6 Abs. 3 lit. d EMRK) nicht verletzt").
B. Relevant domestic law
Section 33 para. 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the
Canton of Uri states that the minutes of the hearing must "record its
course and the essential result and must contain the requests made and
decisions taken during the hearing, and the judgment" ("deren Gang und
Ergebnis im wesentlichen wiedergeben sowie die im Laufe der Verhandlung
gestellten Anträge, ergangenen Entscheide und den Urteilsspruch
enthalten").
Section 180 para. 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the
Canton of Uri states:
[Translation]
"1. Before entering into the substantial issues of the case,
preliminary questions may be put with regard to jurisdiction, the
composition of the court, the standing down of judges and the
exclusion of the public. Requests may also be made with regard
to complementing the investigations, admitting new documents of
evidence, hearing, by the court, of previous or new witnesses and
experts, and taking evidence at the scene ...."
[German]
"1. Vor dem Eintreten in die Hauptsachen können Vorfragen über
die Zuständigkeit, die Besetzung des Gerichts, den Ausstand, den
Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit sowie Begehren um Ergänzung der
Untersuchung, um Zulassung neuer Beweisurkunden, um gerichtliche
Einvernahme bisheriger oder neuer Zeugen und Sachverständigen und
um Durchführung eines gerichtlichen Augenscheins gestellt werden
...."
COMPLAINTS
1. When introducing the application the applicant complained that
he was not able duly to gather, before the Court of Appeal hearing took
place in his case, from official court minutes what the co-accused, the
prosecution and the defence had said.
He submitted that it was impossible to reply in the Court of
Appeal hearing to the submissions of the prosecution to the extent that
these referred to submissions made in proceedings against other
co-accused.
He complained that due to the lack of extensive court minutes the
courts, when reaching their decision, could only occasionally rely on
minutes; for the rest they had to attempt to reconstruct from memory
the course of the many hearings and the oral submissions of the
prosecution and the defence.
The applicant also complained that the lack of court minutes did
not allow him duly to prepare his defence.
The applicant, who relied in respect of these complaints on
Article 6 paras. 1 and 3 (b) of the Convention, submitted that
comprehensive court minutes would have been particularly important in
a complex court case such as the present one, involving altogether 14
co-accused.
2. The applicant also complained under Article 6 para. 1 of the
Convention that he was not able to make additional requests during the
Court of Appeal hearing for the taking of evidence. This should have
been possible at least until the Public Prosecutor spoke.
3. Under Article 6 para. 3 (d) of the Convention the applicant
complained that it was not possible to put questions to the co-accused,
as he only learned from the Public Prosecutor's submissions what they
had said about the applicant at their trials. For instance, the
applicant was not informed when the co-accused S. would be questioned
for which reason it was not possible for him to be present.
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COMMISSION
The application was introduced on 1 October 1990 and registered
on 15 October 1990.
On 27 May 1991 the Commission decided to communicate the
application to the respondent Government and invite them to submit
written observations on the admissibility and merits of the
application.
The Government's observations were received by letter dated
16 September 1991 and the applicant's observations were dated
28 October 1991.
On 11 December 1991 the Government informed the Commission of the
applicant's decease.
On 27 January 1992 the applicant's heirs informed the Commission
that they intended to pursue the application.
On 15 February 1992 the Commission decided to invite the
Government to comment on the question whether the applicant's heirs
could pursue the application.
The Government's observations were received by letter dated
27 March and communicated to the applicant's heirs on 6 April 1992.
THE LAW
1. When filing the application the applicant complained under
Article 6 paras. 1 and 3 (b) and (d) (Art. 6-1, 6-3-b, 6-3-d) that in
the criminal proceedings instituted against him certain court minutes
were not prepared; that he was not able to make additional requests for
the taking of evidence during the Court of Appeal hearing; and that he
could not put questions to the co-accused.
By letter of 11 December 1992 the Government informed the
Commission of the applicant's death. By letter of 27 January 1991 the
applicant's wife and children informed the Commission that they were
the applicant's heirs and wished to continue the application.
The applicant's heirs submit that during the criminal proceedings
instituted against the applicant, lasting more than ten years, they
suffered severe disadvantages. Reference is made to the applicant's
unemployment and press reports. Moreover, the outcome of the
proceedings implied enormous court costs and costs for the defence.
If the Convention organs uphold the present application, the heirs can
claim compensation.
The Government consider that the disadvantages suffered by the
applicant's heirs do not directly relate to the facts giving rise to
the application. Moreover, the damages claimed do not concern the
object of the application. The applicant's heirs cannot claim the
costs of the Regional Court or Court of Appeal proceedings; solely the
costs of the Federal Court proceedings may be considered. There is no
general interest warranting continuation of the application.
The Commission recalls the case-law of the Convention organs
according to which the fact that an applicant dies does not in itself
dispose of his complaint. In principle, it falls to the Convention
organ before which the case is pending to decide whether the
application should be further examined or whether it should be struck
off the list of cases. Special consideration should thereby be given
to the intentions expressed by the applicant's legal successor and to
the nature of the complaint (see Eur. Court H.R., Deweer judgment of
27 February 1980, Series A no. 35, p. 19 et seq., paras. 37 et seq.;
No. 8261/78, Dec. 9.10.82, D.R. 30 p. 5; No. 10300/83, Dec. 12.12.84,
D.R. 40 p. 180; Mathes v. Austria, Comm. Report 13.1.92, paras. 17 et
seq.).
The Court has accepted the wish of members of the family upon the
applicant's death, to have the proceedings continued without examining
the legal interest of the heirs in this continuation (see Eur. Court
H.R., Colozza judgment of 12 February 1985, Series A no. 89, p. 7,
para. 6 (concerning criminal proceedings); Vocaturo judgment of 24 May
1991, Series A no. 206-C, p. 29, para.2; G. v. Italy judgment of
27 February 1992, Series A no. 228-F, p. 65, para. 2; Pandolfelli and
Palumbo judgment of 27 February 1992, Series A no. 231-B, para. 2;
X. v. France judgment of 31 March 1992, Series A no. 236, para. 26).
In the present case the applicant complained under Article 6
paras. 1 and 3 (b) and (d) (Art. 6-1, 6-3-b, 6-3-d) of the Convention
of unfairness of the criminal proceedings instituted against him. In
these proceedings he was convicted of forging documents, obtaining a
false registration, fraud and embezzlement and sentenced to five years'
imprisonment.
The applicant's heirs are close family members, i.e. his wife and
his children. The Commission accepts that they were so affected by the
outcome of the criminal proceedings instituted against their husband
and father, respectively, in particular the conviction and
comparatively severe prison sentence imposed on him, that they can
claim to have themselves a sufficient legal interest justifying the
further examination of the application on their behalf.
The Commission is therefore called upon to deal with the separate
complaints raised in the application.
2. The first complaint, under Article 6 paras. 1 and 3 (a) and (b)
(Art. 6-1, 6-3-a, 6-3-b ) of the Convention, is that before the Court
of Appeal the applicant was not able duly to gather from official court
minutes what the co-accused, the prosecution and the defence had said
at the hearings concerning the co-accused. Thus, he was not able duly
to prepare his defence. Moreover, the courts when reaching their
judgments had to attempt to reconstruct from memory the course of the
oral submissions.
a) The Government submit that the applicant did not exhaust domestic
remedies within the meaning of Article 26 (Art. 26) of the Convention.
Thus, he never expressly raised before the domestic authorities the
complaint that the Court of Appeal in its judgment had to reconstruct
from memory the course of the proceedings.
The Commission observes that in his public law appeal to the
Federal Court the applicant complained that no minutes had been
prepared of the Court of Appeal hearing, and that the Court when
preparing its judgment could not remember many months later what had
previously been stated.
Thus, the applicant sufficiently raised before the Federal Court
the complaint he is now raising before the Commission. It follows that
this complaint cannot be rejected for non-exhaustion of domestic
remedies within the meaning of Article 26 (Art. 26) of the Convention.
b) The Government submit that the submissions during the Court of
Appeal proceedings concerning the applicant's case were reproduced in
that Court's judgment. In respect of the proceedings concerning the
other accused, the written statements of the Public Prosecutor and the
defence were in the case-file and thus accessible to the applicant.
While the time between the hearings was brief the Government contend
that the case was complex and had to be conducted in such a manner as
to enable the judges to grasp the case as a whole.
Article 6 para. 1 (Art. 6-1) of the Convention states, insofar
as
relevant:
"In the determination ... of any criminal charge against
him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing ..."
Article 6 para. 3 (a) and (b) (Art. 6-3-a, 6-3-b) state:
"Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following
minimum rights:
a. to be informed promptly, in a language which he understands
and in detail, of the nature and cause of the accusation against
him;
b. to have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of
his defence ..."
The Commission considers that, under the above provisions the
applicant was entitled to be informed of the charges brought against
him and to comment upon, and if necessary challenge, those facts and
elements of evidence upon which the judgment would eventually rely.
In the present case, the complaint about the lack of minutes is
directed against the Court of Appeal and relates to appeal proceedings.
At that stage the applicant must have been well aware of the charges
brought against him and the co-accused. Furthermore, the applicant's
lawyer had access to the case-file containing written statements of the
co-accused and the Public Prosecutor's Office. Moreover, as the
Federal Court stated in its decision of 29 March 1990, the lawyer was
able to be present at the hearings concerning the various co-accused
and to take notes of any statements made by the parties which he
considered relevant to the applicant's case. Finally, it has not been
contended that during the hearing concerning his own case the applicant
or his lawyer could not put questions to the Public Prosecutor, for
instance when the latter referred to statements made in other hearings.
Insofar as it has been alleged that the courts when preparing
their judgments had to attempt to reconstruct from memory the various
submissions at the hearing as they had no minutes at their disposal,
no reference is made to a particular court or to any particular
omissions. In the Commission's opinion, it suffices therefore to note
that both the Regional Court and the Court of Appeal in their
respective judgments carefully referred to, and dealt with, the various
points raised by the applicant.
It follows that this part of the application is manifestly ill-
founded within the meaning of Article 27 para. 2 (Art. 27-2) of the
Convention.
3. The second complaint, also relating to Article 6 para. 1
(Art. 6-1) of the Convention, is that the applicant was not able to
make additional requests during the Court of Appeal hearing for the
taking of evidence. This should have been possible at least until the
Public Prosecutor spoke.
The Government submit that this complaint in fact refers to the
proceedings before the Regional Court which found that certain requests
for evidence had been filed out of time. On the other hand, the Court
of Appeal did not refuse to admit supplementary evidence as being out
of time. In any event the applicant did not raise this complaint in
the domestic remedies, for which reason in this respect the application
did not comply with Article 26 (Art. 26) of the Convention.
The Commission has assessed the facts relating to this complaint
as follows.
On 12 March 1987 the Uri Regional Court decided, with reference
to Section 180 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canton of Uri,
that the applicant's requests for the taking of evidence had been filed
out of time. The present application is not directed against this
decision.
The application also does not concern the decision of the Court
of Appeal of 1, 15 and 29 June 1988 which dismissed the applicant's
requests in his appeal for the taking of evidence. In any event,
according to the Convention organs' case-law, it is as a rule for the
national courts to assess the evidence before them. The Commission's
task under Article 6 para. 1 (Art. 6-1) of the Convention is to
ascertain whether the proceedings considered as a whole, including the
way in which the evidence was taken, were fair (cf. Eur. Court H.R.,
Asch judgment of 26 April 1991, Series A no. 203, p. 10, para. 26).
In the present case it does not appear unfair if the Court of Appeal
dismissed the applicant's requests inter alia as it regarded the matter
as being clear.
Finally, insofar as it is alleged that contrary to Article 6
para. 1 (Art. 6-1) of the Convention the applicant was not able to make
additional requests during the Court of Appeal hearing for the taking
of evidence, the Commission finds that this complaint is not supported
by the facts. In particular, it has not been shown that the applicant
filed a particular request, and that the Court of Appeal rejected it
on the basis of Section 180 as being out of time.
This part of the application is therefore also manifestly ill-
founded within the meaning of Article 27 para. 2 (Art. 27-2) of the
Convention.
4. The third complaint, under Article 6 para. 3 (d) (Art. 6-3-b) of
the Convention, is that it was not possible for the applicant to put
questions to the co-accused, as he only learned from the Public
Prosecutor's submissions what they had said about the applicant at
their trials.
The Government recall that before the Regional Court all the
accused had the possibility to be present when the co-accused were
being questioned and themselves to put questions. The Court of Appeal
regarded the applicant's request to put questions to the co-accused
partly as being out of time. In any event that Court found that the
applicant had had the possibility to comment on all the documents of
the investigation in the case-file. Reference is further made to the
decision of the Federal Court according to which the applicant had had
the possibility to put supplementary questions and to call new
witnesses.
Article 6 para. 3 (d) (Art. 6-3-d) of the Convention states:
"3. Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following
minimum rights:
...
d. to examine or have examined witnesses against him and to
obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf
under the same conditions as witnesses against him."
The guarantees in Article 6 para. 3 (Art. 6-3) are specific
aspects of the right to a fair trial set forth in para. 1 and the
Commission will consider the complaint under the two provisions taken
together (see Eur. Court H.R., Asch judgment, loc. cit. p. 10, para.
25).
According to the Convention organs' case-law, all evidence must
normally be produced in the presence of the accused at a public hearing
with a view to adversarial argument. This does not mean, however, that
the statement of a witness must always be made in court and in public
if it is to be admitted in evidence; in certain cases this may prove
impossible. Article 6 paras. 1 and 3 (d) (Art. 6-1, 6-3-d) require
that the defendant be given an adequate and proper opportunity to
challenge and question a witness against him, either when he was making
his statement or at a later stage of the proceedings (Eur. Court H.R.,
Asch judgment, loc. cit. p. 10, para. 27).
In the present case the complaint at issue does not indicate
during which particular proceedings it was not possible for the
applicant to put questions to the co-accused.
Insofar as the complaint may be directed against the proceedings
before the Regional Court, the Commission notes the decision of that
Court of 12 March 1987 according to which all the parties to the
proceedings had the possibility to be present when the co-accused were
interrogated, and themselves to put questions.
Insofar as the complaint may be directed against the proceedings
before the Court of Appeal, the Commission notes the decision of the
Federal Court of 29 March 1990 according to which, even if the
applicant was not issued with a personal invitation, he or his lawyer
could in fact be present when the other co-accused were questioned.
Moreover, according to the decision of the Federal Court the applicant
had actually consulted the written statements of the co-accused and he
had had the possibility to put supplementary questions in writing and
to call new witnesses.
It follows that the remainder of the application is also
manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 27 para. 2
(Art. 27-2) of the Convention.
For these reasons, the Commission unanimously
DECLARES THE APPLICATION INADMISSIBLE.
Secretary to the Commission President of the Commission
(H.C. Krüger) (C.A. Nørgaard)
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