THIRD SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 14366/05
by Petru TRIFAN
against Romania
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 6 September 2011 as a Committee composed of:
	Ján Šikuta, President,
	Ineta Ziemele,
	Kristina Pardalos, judges,
and Marialena Tsirli, Deputy Setion Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 7 April 2005,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
THE FACTS
The applicant, Mr Petru Trifan, is a Romanian national who was born in 1953 and lives in Cluj Napoca. The Romanian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Co-Agent, Ms I. Cambrea, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Under Articles 6 § 1 of the Convention and 1 of Protocol No. 1, both taken alone and in conjunction with Article 14, the applicant, member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, claimed that the court of appeal which refused to recognise him as politically persecuted on account of his religion and to subsequently award him the benefits granted by Law‑Decree No. 118 of 1990, adopted opposite decisions in identical cases in respect of other Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The application was communicated to the Government, who submitted their observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant, who was invited to submit his observations in reply and his just satisfaction claims. No reply was received to the Registry’s letter.
By letter dated 17 November 2010, sent by registered post, the applicant was notified that the period allowed for submission of his observations had expired on 9 November 2010 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 a case out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application. The letter remained unclaimed and no response has been received.
THE LAW
The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicant may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue his application, within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine, the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require the continued examination of the case.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court unanimously
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.
	Marialena Tsirli	Jan Šikuta
	Deputy Registrar	President