FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 1302/19 Svitlana Leonidivna ZYMNYA and Others against Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 9 December 2021 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 5 December 2018,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The applicants were represented by Mr M.M. Trushnikov, a lawyer practising in the city of Mykolayiv, Ukraine.

The applicants’ complaints concerning the excessive length of the proceedings and lack of an effective remedy were communicated to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”), who submitted 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.

By letter dated 15 June 2021, sent through the Court’s Electronic Communications Service (eComms), the applicants’ representative was notified that the period allowed for submission of the observations had expired on 24 March 2021 and that no extension of time had been requested. His 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 does not intend to pursue the application. The Court’s correspondence has never been downloaded by the applicants’ lawyer.

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 13 January 2022.

Viktoriya Maradudina Lətif Hüseynov Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

No.

Applicant’s Name

Year of birth

Nationality

1.Svitlana Leonidivna ZYMNYA

1965Ukrainian

2.Svitlana Leonidivna BONDARENKO

1963Ukrainian

3.Natalya Oleksandrivna GONCHAROVA

1960Ukrainian

4.Sergiy Mykolayovych LOSKUTOV

1956Ukrainian

5.Oleksandr Mykolayovych SAVUN

1968Ukrainian

6.Galyna Volodymyrivna SPIRKACH

1960Ukrainian

7.Alevtyna Gennadiyivna SYDORKINA

1961Ukrainian

8.Ganna Pavlivna TKACHUK

1963Ukrainian

9.Lyubov Ivanivna TOROVETS

1963Ukrainian