NIKOLOV v. AUSTRIA - 48105/16 (Judgment : Article 6 - Right to a fair trial : Fourth Section Committee)

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

��������� Armen Harutyunyan , President , ��������� Anja Seibert-Fohr, ��������� Ana Maria Guerra Martins , judges , and Veronika Kotek, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 48105/16 ) against the Republic of Austria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 12 August 2016 by a Bulgarian national, Mr Valentin Petrov Nikolov (�the applicant�), who was born in 1967 and at the time of the application was detained in Vienna, and who was represented by Mr R. Kier, a lawyer practising in Vienna;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Austrian Government (�the Government�), represented by their Agent, Mr H. Tichy, Ambassador, Head of the International Law Department at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs;

the information given to the Bulgarian Government regarding their right to intervene in the proceedings pursuant to Article 36 � 1 of the Convention and the fact that the Bulgarian Government did not express a wish to exercise that right;