THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no . 47785/07 Gheorghe BALLAI against Romania and 3 other applications (see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights ( Third Section ), sitting on 16 December 2014 as a Committee composed of:

Luis López Guerra, President , Johannes Silvis, Valeriu Griţco , judges ,

and Marialena Tsirli , Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above applications,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicants ’ names and other details, as well as the date of lodging and the date of communication to the Government of each application are specified in the appended table.

The Romanian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms Catrinel Brumar , of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The applicants ’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 and Article 1 Protocol No. 1 of the Convention were communicated to the Government, who submitted their observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit withi n six weeks their claims for just satisfaction under Article 41 . The applicants were notified that they needed to inform the Court , within the same time limit, if they did not wish to submit just satisfaction claims; their attention was 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 applicants do not intend to pursue the application . No reply was received to the Registry ’ s letters. Moreover, since the communication of their applications, the applicants did not contact the Court, nor did they show any other sign of interest as regards the proceedings concerning their cases.

THE LAW

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to join them in a single decision.

The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicants may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue their applications, 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 cases.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case s out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously

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

Marialena Tsirli Luis López Guerra Deputy Registrar President

Appe ndix

No .

Application No .

Date of lodging

Date of communication to the Government

Applicant

Date of birth

47785/07

24/10/2007

27/01/2011

Gheorghe BALLAI

22/02/1932

28646/08

06/12/2007

14/02/2014

Dorina Adriana OLARIU

28/07/1956

43226/08

27/08/2008

02/09/2010

Elena VASILE

05/05/1928

49291/09

01/09/2009

14/02/2014

Romeo LEFTER

06/09/1967