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Romania sued at ECHR by British fund over 19-storey building

Romanian Times

A company is suing Romania at the European Court of Human Rights after a Romanian court decided for one of its building to be demolished.

The company Millennium Building made a claim at the ECHR against a decision by the Court of Appeal in Suceava, which annulled the building authorisation of a 19-floor building in Bucharest.

Lawyer Ron Soffer said today (Fri), in Bucharest, that the Court of Appeal in Suceava violated the European Convention for Human Rights, which protects private property and the right to a fair trial.

The lawyer said the project Cathedral Plaza was authorised by the town hall of district 1 in Bucharest on 24 February 2006, and works started in March 2006.

In July last year, the Roman-Catholic Archdiocese in Bucharest asked for the 19-floor-high (75 metres) Cathedral Plaza office building in Bucharest to be demolished, after Suceava Court of Appeal decided, definitively, that it had been illegally built.

The office building had been constructed extremely close to an existing church.

The Court of Appeal decided the building authorisation as null and void.

It is the sixth decision by a court in this case and it is definitive and irrevocable.

Archbishop Ioan Robu, said it is time to "leave behind political and electoral strategies and to put forward national interest about cultural patrimony."

Company Millennium Building Development, the developer of the office building, said Cathedral Plaza had already been sold in May 2011 to a British investment fund for 70 million Euros and its spaces are let.

It said the court's decision was "tardy."

The developer said they had obtained the authorisation for building the office block in February 2006 and the court called on EU law, while Romania was not a member of the EU when the authorisation for the building was issued (in 2006).

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Romania wont ratify ACTA
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Romania wont ratify ACTA
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