5.  The applicant was born in 1938 and lives in Žirovnica. 6.  On 1 June 1994 the Ljubljana Center Municipality (Občina Ljubljana Center) issued a denationalisation decision in favour of deceased I.Z., ordering the return of the ownership of certain real estate that he had owned prior to 1948. The decision was issued on the basis of a request made on 8 March 1993 by A.P. – one of the potential heiresses and a later possessor of the denationalised property of I.Z. 7.  On 1 March 1995 the Administrative Unit of Ljubljana (Upravna enota Ljubljana, Izpostava Center) – responsible for denationalisation proceedings after the reform of the public administration – reopened the denationalisation proceeding in part. 8.  A.P. filed an appeal against the decision of 1 March 1995; she also requested that the decision of 1 June 1994 be annulled. The appeal was rejected on 5 January 1996 by the Ministry of Economy (Ministrstvo za gospodarske dejavnosti). 9.  On 14 February 1996 A.P. instituted administrative dispute against the decision of the Ministry of Economy. 10.  On 15 July 1997 the applicant submitted an application for joining the proceedings as an intervening party. On 16 August 1997 a copy of A.P.'s claim was served on the applicant. 11.  On 21 February 2001 the Administrative Court (Upravno sodišče) issued a judgment upholding the claim, annulling the decision of 5 January 1996 and referring the case to the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (Ministrstvo za okolje in prostor). The judgment was served on the applicant on an unspecified date. 12.  On 19 March 2001 the applicant lodged an appeal against the Administrative Court's judgment.
On 26 March 2003 the Supreme Court (Vrhovno sodišče RS) rejected the appeal. 13.  Subsequently, on 9 October 2003 the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (paragraph 11 above) annulled the decision of 1 March 1995, but rejected A.P.'s request for annulment of the decision of 1 June 1994. 14. On 3 December 2003 A.P. lodged a (new) request for annulment of the decision of 1 June 1994.
On 22 December 2003 the Ljubljana Administrative Unit declared the denationalisation decision of 1 June 1994 void and ordered that the previous ownership regarding the real estate in question be entered into the Land Registry. The request for denationalisation of 8 March 1993 was sent to the competent department of the Ljubljana Administrative Unit which was expected to decide on the request. 15.  On 16 April 2004, the Ljubljana Local Court (Okrajno sodišče v Ljubljani) issued a decision concerning the change in the Land Registry.
On 10 June 2004 the same court rejected the applicant's objection.
On 8 December 2004 the Ljubljana Higher Court (Višje sodišče v Ljubljani) rejected the applicant's appeal. The decision was served on the applicant on 27 December 2004. 16.  It appears that the denationalisation proceedings are still pending before the Ljubljana Administrative Unit (see paragraph 14 above). 17.  On 19 December 1996 the applicant, who claimed to be an heiress to I.Z., lodged with the Ljubljana Local Court (Okrajno sodišče v Ljubljani) a request to open inheritance proceedings in respect of the real estate restored by the denationalisation decision of 1 June 1994 (see paragraph 6 above).
On 6 March 2001 and 25 March 2002, respectively, two apparent relatives submitted an application to join the inheritance proceedings.
A hearing was held on 7 October 2002. 18.  On 2 February 2003 the Ljubljana Local Court discontinued the inheritance proceedings finding that the denationalisation proceedings were still pending. It held that it would only be possible to reinstate them again when the denationalisation proceedings became final. The decision was served on the applicant on 15 March 2003. 19.  On 27 March 2003 the applicant lodged an appeal against the decision to discontinue the inheritance proceedings.
On 20 April 2004 the court requested the applicant to pay fees for the appeal. 20.  According to the Government, on 15 October 1998 and 11 September 2002 two applicant's lawyers cancelled their authority for representation. On 5 April 2004, she appointed a third lawyer. 21.  On 6 May 2004 the applicant requested the continuation of the inheritance proceedings in respect of the property which was reinstated by the Ljubljana Administration Unit's denationalisation decision of 9 January 2004 in apparently separate proceedings. She proposed that the court acquired the information about remaining heirs by means of announcement in the Official Journal. 22.  On 30 September 2004 the court asked the applicant to inform the court whether she still insisted on appeal of 27 March 2003. On 13 October 2004 the applicant confirmed that she was still interested in pursuing her appeal. 23.  On 15 October 2004 the applicant supplemented the appeal.
The proceedings are pending.