FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 76033/14 TRADE UNION OF THE CHERNOBYL

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

against Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 20 January 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Lətif Hüseynov, President, Lado Chanturia, Arnfinn Bårdsen, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 25 November 2014,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant association, the Trade Union of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, was established in 2000. It was represented before the Court by Mr A.M. Panchenko, a lawyer practicing in Kyiv.

The complaints of the applicant association under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the non-observance of the principle of equality of arms in the proceedings before the domestic courts were communicated to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant association, which was invited to submit its own observations. No reply was received to the Registry’s letter.

By letter dated 16 January 2020, sent by registered post, the representative of the applicant association was notified that the period allowed for submission of the observations had expired on 16 September 2019 and that no extension of time had been requested. The applicant’s representative’s attention was drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant association does not intend to pursue the application. The representative of the applicant association received this letter on 4 February 2020. However, no response has followed.

THE LAW

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 10 February 2022.

Viktoriya Maradudina Lətif Hüseynov Acting Deputy Registrar President