FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 49947/21 Khvicha TAVADZE

against Georgia

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 8 December 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Mārtiņš Mits, President , Mattias Guyomar, Mykola Gnatovskyy, judges ,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 29 September 2021,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Khvicha Tavadze, was born in 1970.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 6 § 1 and Article 13 of the Convention concerning the length of the administrative proceedings and the absence of an effective remedy in that respect were communicated to the Georgian Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant, who was granted leave for self-representation. He was invited to submit his own observations; however, no reply was received to the Registry’s letter.

By letter dated 28 September 2022, sent through the Court’s Electronic Communication Service (eComms), the applicant was notified that the period allowed for submission of his observations had expired on 27 June 2022 and that no extension of time had been requested. The applicant’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 does not intend to pursue the application. No response has been received to this letter.

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 12 January 2023.

Viktoriya Maradudina Mārtiņš Mits Acting Deputy Registrar President