FOURTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 38018/11 REGUL EOOD against Bulgaria

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 15 October 2020 as a Committee composed of:

Armen Harutyunyan, President, Jolien Schukking, Ana Maria Guerra Martins, judges, and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 10 June 2011 ,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant company, Regul EOOD, is a Bulgarian limited liability company with a registered office in Botevgrad .

The applicant company was represented before the Court by Ms S. Margaritova-Vuchkova , a lawyer practising in Sofia.

The applicant company ’ s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 that the municipal authorities infringed its right, recognised in final judgments, to purchase a leased property under a preferential privatisation procedure for tenants of municipally-owned property, as well as the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law under Article 13 of the Convention, were communicated to the Bulgarian Government (“the Government”) on 11 October 2019.

On 27 August 2020 the applicant company ’ s representative informed the Registry that the applicant company wanted to withdraw the application to the Court since it was no longer interested in pursuing it.

THE LAW

In the light of the foregoing, t he Court concludes that the applicant company may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue the application (Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention). Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine , the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto which require the continued 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 5 November 2020 .

Liv Tigerstedt Armen Harutyunyan Acting Deputy Registrar President