5.  The applicant was born in 1976 and resides in the town of Novogrodovka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. 6.  The applicant instituted proceedings in the Novogrodovskiy Town Court of the Donetsk Region against the Novogrodovskaya Mining Company No. 1/3 – a State-owned enterprise – to recover salary arrears and compensation for damage to his health. 7.  On 28 March 2002 the Novogrodovskiy Town Court found in favour of the applicant (Решения Новогродовского городского суда Донецкой области) and awarded him UAH 4,133.81[1]. This judgment was sent for enforcement to the Novogrodovskiy Town Bailiffs’ Service (Отдел Государственной исполнительной службы Новогродовского городского управления юстиции). 8.  The applicant instituted proceedings in the Novogrodovskiy Town Court of the Donetsk Region against the Novogrodovskiy Town Bailiffs’ Service for failure to enforce the judgment of 28 March 2002 in his favour. On 10 October 2002 the Town Court rejected the applicant’s claim, finding that no fault had been committed by the Bailiffs’ Service. The court stated that the Bailiffs’ Service had acted properly in enforcing the judgment of 28 March 2002. However, by a number of decisions of the Commercial Court of the Donetsk Region, the Bailiffs’ Service had been prohibited from selling the property of the Mining Company, due to the bankruptcy proceedings which had been initiated against the company. On 9 December 2002 the Court of Appeal of the Donetsk Region dismissed the applicant’s appeal. On 3 October 2003 the Supreme Court of Ukraine rejected the applicant’s appeal in cassation. 9.  In June 2004 the applicant withdrew his writ of execution. 10.  In August 2004 the judgment in the applicant’s favour was enforced in full.