CASE OF TRAFIK OIL - 1 EOOD v. BULGARIA

FOURTH SECTION CASE OF TRAFIK OIL - 1 EOOD v. BULGARIA (Application no. 67437/17) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 18 May 2021 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. TRAFIK OIL - 1 EOOD v. BULGARIA JUDGMENT In the case of Trafik Oil - 1 EOOD v. Bulgaria, The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of: Iulia Antoanella Motoc, President, Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, Pere Pastor Vilanova, judges, and Ilse Freiwirth, Deputy Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 67437/17) against the Republic of Bulgaria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Bulgarian company, Trafik Oil - 1 EOOD (“the applicant company”), on 5 September 2017; the decision to give notice to the Bulgarian Government (“the Government”) of the application; the observations by the Government; the decision to reject the Government’s objection to the examination of the application by a Committee; Having deliberated in private on 13 April 2021, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: INTRODUCTION 1. The case concerns complaints, made under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention, about the confiscation of fuel belonging to the applicant company in proceedings against a third party in which it could not participate. THE FACTS 2. The applicant company was...