LTD BEQANASI v. GEORGIA - 28407/19 (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Protection of property : Fifth Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström , President , Lado Chanturia, Mykola Gnatovskyy , judges , and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 28407/19 ) against Georgia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 23 April 2019 by Beqanasi Ltd., a company registered in Lissi, Georgia ("the applicant company"), which was represented by Ms T. Oniani, Mr D. Javakhishvili, and Ms M. Tchikadze, lawyers practising in Tbilisi;

the decision to give notice of the complaint under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Georgian Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Mr B. Dzamashvili of the Ministry of Justice, and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;

. The case concerns, under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, the confiscation by the State of a tractor belonging to the applicant company which had been classified as "an instrument of crime".