4.   Ms Yefrosyniya Semenivna Bilokin was born in 1925, Ms Olena Oleksandrivna Shebitko in 1972, Mr Anatoliy Ivanovych Shebitko in 1973, Mr Petro Ivanovych Shebitko in 1967, Mr Sergiy Ivanovych Maksymenko in 1965 and Ms Nataliya Dmytrivna Maksymenko in 1963. All the applicants live in Sudiyivka, Poltava Region. 5.  On 26 July 2001 the Poltava Town Court (“the Town Court”) allowed the applicants’ claim against the collective enterprise and ordered the latter to return to all of them certain agricultural equipment worth 13,382 Ukrainian hryvnyas (UAH)[1]. It also awarded them UAH 180[2] in compensation for legal expenses. 6.  On 17 October 2001 the Town Court changed the manner of enforcement of the judgment at the applicants’ request and ordered the debtor to pay them UAH 13,382 instead of providing them with the equipment corresponding to that amount. To secure the claim the court decided to seize the equipment at issue. 7.  On 9 November 2001 enforcement proceedings were instituted. 8.  In April 2002 the Bailiffs’ Service seized the debtor’s equipment. 9.  On an unspecified date the judgment was enforced in part, an amount of UAH 2,000[3] being paid to the applicants (each of them received UAH 333[4]). 10.  No further steps seem to have been taken for the enforcement of the judgment. 11.  The applicants complained to the Town Court that the Bailiffs’ Service was taking no action. 12.  On 21 November 2002 the Town Court found their complaint substantiated and ordered the Bailiffs’ Service to speed up the sale of the seized property. 13.  In 2004 the applicants introduced a claim for damages against the Bailiffs’ Service at the Zhovtnevyy District Court, Poltava (“the District Court”). 14.  On 5 August 2004 the District Court found for the applicants and ordered the Bailiffs’ Service to pay them jointly UAH 11,562[5] as the remaining amount of the award made by the 26 July 2001 judgment, and UAH 1,000[6] each in compensation for non-pecuniary damage. The judgment was not appealed against and became final. It remains unenforced for lack of funds.