Communicated on 4 December 2019

FIFTH SECTION

Application no. 21743/15 Nikolay Kostadinov KOSTADINOV against Bulgaria lodged on 30 April 2015

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns complaints that the procedures available under Bulgarian law, and the way those were applied by the various courts in the proceedings brought by the applicant, failed to provide effective redress to the applicant and give him adequate protection from the consequences of the registration decisions that enabled private persons fraudulently to take control of his jointly-owned company.

QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES

1. Did domestic law provide protection against arbitrary interference with property rights and did the applicant have access to judicial procedures which offered the necessary procedural guarantees as required under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention (see Shesti Mai Engineering OOD and Others v. Bulgaria , no. 17854/04 , § 79, 20 September 2011)?

2. Did the domestic courts adjudicate fai rly as required under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention in the different proceedings brought by the applicant?

3. Did the applicant have at his disposal effective domestic remedies, as required under Article 13 of the Convention, in connection with his complaints above?