FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 5960/19 Vlatko SAJKOSKI

against North Macedonia

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 26 August 2021 as a Committee composed of:

Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President, Jovan Ilievski, Mattias Guyomar, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 22 January 2019,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Vlatko Sajkoski, was born in 1976.

The applicant was represented by Mr Z. Arsoski, a lawyer practising in Kichevo.

The application concerns the applicant’s dismissal from his post (to which he was appointed by Parliament) as a member of a second-instance commission for deciding complaints in administrative proceedings, before his term had expired. His complaints under Article 6 of the Convention concerning the right of access to a court and under Article 13 of the Convention about the lack of an effective domestic remedy in this regard, were communicated to the Government of North Macedonia (“the Government”),

Following an exchange of the first round of observations, with a letter of 28 October 2020 the Government submitted additional observations. On 3 November 2020 the applicant was invited to comment on the Government’s additional observations.

With a letter dated 14 December 2020, sent through the Court’s Electronic Communication Service (“eComms”) and downloaded by the applicant’s representative on 8 January 2021, the applicant was notified that the period allowed for submission of his comments to the Government’s additional observations had expired on 17 November 2020 and that no extension of time had been requested. His attention was also drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike a case out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application. However, no response has been received.

In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, 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 16 September 2021.

Viktoriya Maradudina Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström Acting Deputy Registrar President