THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Applications nos. 7120/05 and 25803/08 by Ioan FODOREAN and Mihaela Anca DIACON against Romania

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 13 March 2012 as a Committee composed of:

Alvina Gyulumyan , President, Ineta Ziemele , Mihai Poalelungi , judges, and Marialena Tsirli , Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above applications lodged respectively on 14 February 2005 and on 22 May 2008 ,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

THE FACTS

The applicants, Mr Ioan Fodorean and Ms Anca Mihaela Diacon , are Romanian nationals who were born in 1951 and 1960 and live in Cluj ‑ Napoca and in Bucharest , respectively . The applicant in the second application was represented by Mr I.M. Macovei , lawyer. The Romanian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their A gent, Ms I. Cambrea , from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

The applicants ’ complaints under Article 6 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 their own observations. No reply was received to the Registry ’ s letter s .

By letter s dated respectively 14 October 2011 and 29 November 2011 , sent by registered post, the applicants were notified that the period allowed for submission of their observations had expired on 25 January 2011 and 2 March 2011 respectively and that no extension of time had been requested. The applicants ’ 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 applicant does not intend to pursue the application.

The above-mentioned letters in both applications remained unanswered.

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 further considers that, in the specified 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 join the applications ;

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

Marialena Tsirli Alvina Gyulumyan Deputy Registrar President