THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 65663/01 by Egidijus GRUDIKIS against Lithuania

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 29 January 2004 as a Chamber composed of:

Mr G. Ress , President , Mr I. Cabral Barreto , Mr L. Caflisch , Mr P. Kūris , Mr R. Türmen , Mr K. Traja , Mrs A. Gyulumyan , judges ,

and Mr M . Villiger , Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 22 January 2001,

Having regard to the Government’s letter of 22 December 2003 and the applicant’s letters of 22 December 2003 and 5 January 2004,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

THE FACTS AND COMPLAINTS

The applicant, Mr Egidijus Grudikis, is a Lithuanian national, who was born in 1971 and lives in Å iauliai.

The applicant introduced his application on 22 January 2001 whereby he complained about criminal proceedings for fraud. He complained that the length of the proceedings was excessive.

In a letter of 22 December 2003 the Government informed the applicant of their proposal that the case be struck out of the Court’s list of cases under Article 37 of the Convention on the conditions that:

a) the criminal proceedings against the applicant should be discontinued;

b) 15,000 Lithuanian litai (LTL) should be paid to him for damage, and LTL 3,000 for costs and expenses.

By letter of 22 December 2003 the applicant informed the Government that he agreed with the conditions of the settlement as proposed by the Government.

In his letter of 5 January 2004 the applicant informed the Court of the above agreement.  

THE LAW

The Court notes that the parties have reached an agreement with a view to discontinuing the Convention proceedings. The matter has thus been resolved, and the Court detects no interest warranting it to continue the examination of the application. By reference to Article 37 § 1 of the Convention, the Court considers that the case should be struck out of its list of cases.

For these reasons, the Court unanimously

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Mark Villiger Georg Ress              Deputy Registrar President