CONSEIL
DE L’EUROPE
COUNCIL
OF EUROPE
COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME
EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
THIRD SECTION
DECISION
AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF
Application no. 54934/00
by Gabriele WEBER and Cesar Richard SARAVIA
against Germany
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting
on 29 June 2006 as a Chamber composed of:
Mr B.M. ZUPANČIČ, President,
Mr L. CAFLISCH,
Mr C. BÎRSAN,
Mr V. ZAGREBELSKY,
Mr E. MYJER,
Mr DAVID THÓR BJÖRGVINSSON, judges,
Mr A. ZIMMERMANN, ad hoc judge,
and Mr V. BERGER, Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 10 January 2000,
Having regard to the observations submitted by the respondent
Government and the observations in reply submitted by the applicants,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
THE FACTS
1. The first applicant, Ms Gabriele Weber, is a German national. The
second applicant, Mr Cesar Richard Saravia, is a Uruguayan national. Both
applicants live in Montevideo (Uruguay). They were represented before the
Court by Mr W. Kaleck, a lawyer practising in Berlin, and by
Mr E. Schwan, a university professor in Berlin. The German Government
(“the Government”) were represented by their Agents, Mr K. Stoltenberg,
Ministerialdirigent, and, subsequently, Mrs A. Wittling-Vogel,
Ministerialdirigentin, of the Federal Ministry of Justice.