FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 49864/15 Jacek MAZUR against Poland

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 13 November 2018 as a Committee composed of:

Ksenija Turković , President, Krzysztof Wojtyczek , Armen Harutyunyan , judges,

and Abel Campos , Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 23 September 2015,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

1. The applicant, Mr Jacek Mazur, is a Polish national, who was born i n 1973 and was detained in Grójec Remand Centre.

2. The applicant ’ s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the excessive length of criminal proceedings, and under Article 13 of the Convention about the lack of redress for the excessive length of proceedings, were communicated to the Polish Government (“the Government”), who were represented by their Agent, Ms J. Chrzanowska, and subsequently by Mr J. Sobczak, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

3. The Registry ’ s letter of 28 July 2017, sent to the Grójec Remand Centre, informing the applicant of the communication of his case to the Government, was returned unclaimed with the annotation “released”. The last Registry ’ s letter of 25 July 2018, send by registered post to the same address, enclosing the Government ’ s unilateral declaration in the case, was also returned unclaimed with the annotation “released”. Since lodging his application on 23 September 2015 the applicant did not correspond with the Registry nor did he inform it about a change of his address.

THE LAW

4. The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicant may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue his application, within the meaning of 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 its Protocols which require the continued examination of the case.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case 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 6 December 2018 .

Abel Campos Ksenija Turković Registrar President