The Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on the Restitution of Nationalized Private Property

Abstract

After the fall of the communist regime, the Romanian State adopted a series of laws to redress the violations of property rights caused by that regime. Romania has been condemned in numerous restitution cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights, because the implementation of property restitution legislation has proceeded exceedingly slowly. This paper aims to investigate the main causes of this delay taking into consideration the new legislative framework of Property Restitution and the new judgements of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Romania.