Communicated on 14 March 2019

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 48365/11 Fausto SENES and Ida SENES against Italy lodged on 28 July 2011

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicants were the owners of a plot of land which was expropriated in 1981 by the Perfugas Municipality for the purpose of building a social housing complex. The applicants lodged proceedings before the domestic courts arguing that the deprivation of property had been unlawful. As the courts found that the expropriation had been lawful, the applicants lodged further proceedings seeking the determination of the amount of expropriation compensation due to them. The courts ruled that the applicants were not entitled to compensation equal to the property ’ s market value but, rather, to a sum calculated in accordance with Article 5 bis of Law No. 359 of 1992. By a judgment delivered in 2011 the Cagliari Court of Appeal ruled that the Constitutional Court ’ s judgm ent No. 348 of 24 October 2007, which declared the latter provision unconstitutional, could not be applied in the case under scrutiny.

QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicants ’ right to property, contrary to Article 1 of Protocol No. 1?

In particular, did the deprivation of the applicants ’ property impose an excessive individual burden on them on account of the amount of expropriation compensation awarded (see Scordino v. Italy (no. 1) [GC], no. 36813/97, ECHR 2006 V)?

No.

Firstname LASTNAME

Birth year

Place of residence

Representative

Fausto SENES

1945Perfugas

S. Guiso-Gallisay

Ida SENES

1946Tempio

S. Guiso-Gallisay