NASKOV AND OTHERS v. NORTH MACEDONIA - 31620/15 (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Protection of property : Second Section)

Art 1 P1 • Peaceful enjoyment of possessions • Proprio motu quashing of final restitution order conferring on the applicants' title to a plot of land, owing to the legal and factual impossibility of enforcing the order on account of third parties having constructed structures on the land in the meantime • Interference in breach of lawfulness principle and not foreseeable

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 (Second Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Arnfinn Bårdsen , President , Jovan Ilievski, Egidijus Kūris, Pauliine Koskelo, Lorraine Schembri Orland, Diana Sârcu, Davor Derenčinović , judges , and Hasan Bakırcı, Section Registrar,

the applications (nos. 31620/15 , 34859/15 and 14659/16 ) against the Republic of North Macedonia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by ten Macedonians/citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia ("the applicants"), on various dates (see appended table);