8.  The applicant was born in 1937 and lives in Michalovce. 9.  On 28 September 1993 and on 15 March 1994 respectively the Regional Social Security Office in Michalovce issued two decisions ordering the applicant to pay a total of 12,512 Slovakian korunas. The sum included social insurance fees which the applicant had failed to pay and an administrative fine. The decisions became final on 18 October 1993 and on 6 April 1994 respectively. 10.  On 14 October 1994 the Regional Social Security Office in Michalovce brought judicial enforcement proceedings against the applicant under the relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. 11.  On 18 November 1994 the Michalovce District Court ordered the enforcement of the sum due by selling the applicant's movable property. The decision was served on the applicant on 23 September 1996. On 7 October 1996 the applicant appealed. 12.  On 1 August 1996, the Michalovce branch office of the Social Security Administration requested the Michalovce District Court that the sum due be enforced by an enforcement officer, that is pursuant to Act No. 233/1995. In a letter dated 7 August 1996 and delivered on 12 August 1996 a judge informed the Social Security Administration that the District Court approved of the request. 13.  On 6 February 1997 the Michalovce branch office of the Social Security Administration requested an enforcement officer to enforce the applicant's debt pursuant to Act No. 233/1995. On 10 March 1997 the Michalovce District Court authorised the enforcement officer to carry out the enforcement in accordance with Act No. 233/1995. 14.  On 13 and 26 June 1997 the applicant filed objections to the enforcement. On 28 September 1998 the Michalovce District Court dismissed the applicant's objections to the enforcement. 15.  On 25 October 2000 the Michalovce District Court dismissed the applicant's above appeal of 7 October 1996 which it had qualified as a request for the enforcement to be discontinued. On 21 and 30 November 2000 the applicant appealed. 16.  According to the documents submitted by the applicant, the sum due was enforced by partial payments deducted from his old-age pension between February 1999 and August 2001. 17.  On 15 October 2001 the Košice Regional Court upheld the District Court's decision of 25 October 2000.