CONCURRING OPINION OF JUDGE MATSCHER

( Translation )

As regards the breach of the principle that proceedings must be public, I refer to the first paragraph of my separate opinion in the case of Werner v. Austria (judgment of 24 November 1997, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1997-VII).

[1] . This summary by the registry does not bind the Court.

[2] Notes by the Registrar

. The case is numbered 135/1996/754/953. The first number is the case’s position on the list of cases referred to the Court in the relevant year (second number). The last two numbers indicate the case’s position on the list of cases referred to the Court since its creation and on the list of the corresponding originating applications to the Commission.

[3] . Rules of Court B, which came into force on 2 October 1994, apply to all cases concerning States bound by Protocol No. 9.

[4] . Note by the Registrar . For practical reasons this annex will appear only with the printed version of the judgment (in Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1997), but a copy of the Commission’s report is available from the registry.