LOCASCIA AND OTHERS v. ITALY - 35648/10 (Remainder inadmissible - Domestic authorities' protracted inability to ensure proper functioning of waste collection : First Section)

Art 13 (+ Art 1 P1) • Effective remedy • Inability to obtain full restitution of taxes paid for waste collection, treatment and disposal services within wide margin of appreciation of Contracting State in framing and implementing policy in area of taxation • Manifestly ill-founded

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Marko Bošnjak , President , Alena Poláčková, Lətif Hüseynov, Péter Paczolay, Gilberto Felici, Erik Wennerström, Raffaele Sabato , judges , and Renata Degener, Section Registrar,

the application (no. 35648/10 ) against the Italian Republic lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by nineteen Italian nationals ("the applicants" - see appendix), on 23 June 2010;