Communicated on 13 December 2017

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 2555/08 Mauro VARANINI and Pietro Letterio DE SALVATORE against Italy lodged on 4 January 2008

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The case concerns the deprivation of the applicants ’ land through the application of the constructive-expropriation rule (“ accessione invertita ” or “ occupazione acquisitiva ”) by the domestic courts.

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Have the applicants been deprived of their possessions in accordance with the conditions provided for by law, within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (see, amongst many other authorities, Guiso-Gallisay v. Italy , no. 58858/00, 8 December 2005; Rivera and di Bonaventura v. Italy , no. 63869/00, 14 June 2011; and De Caterina and Others v. Italy , no. 65278/01, 28 June 2011)?