6.  The applicants were born in 1932, 1934 and 1942, respectively, and live in Albania. 7.  In 1950 a plot of land measuring 1,600 sq. m., which belonged to the applicants' father, was confiscated without compensation by the State, which subsequently constructed a building on the plot of land. 8.  On 1 July 1991 the Italian Embassy in Albania purchased two buildings in Tirana, one of which was situated on the applicants' inherited plot of land. The transaction was concluded through an inter-State agreement validated by means of note verbale exchanges between the two governments. The relevant property titles were not entered in the Tirana Property Register. 9.  The Albanian Government subsequently used the income from the transaction to purchase the premises of the Albanian Embassy in Rome (see also Vrioni and Others v. Albania and Italy, nos. 35720/04 and 42832/06, §§ 7-16, 29 September 2009 for a similar description of facts). 10.  Under the Property Restitution and Compensation Act, the applicants lodged an application with the Tirana Commission on Restitution and Compensation of Properties (Komisioni i Kthimit dhe Kompensimit të Pronave – “the Commission”) claiming title to their father's property. 11.  On 28 July 1999 the Commission recognised the applicants' father's property title over 1,600 sq. m. and acknowledged the fact that the plot of land was occupied by the Italian Embassy in Albania. Since buildings had been constructed on the land, the Commission ruled that their owner, the Italian Government, had to pay rent for the land or repurchase the land by agreement. 12.  The applicants were also issued with a certificate of registration of property by the Registry Office: registration no. 137, dated 9 August 1999. 13.  The applicants claimed that they sent letters to the Italian Embassy to enter into a lease or to sell the plot of land according to the Commission's decision. However, the Italian Embassy explained that the property had been transferred to them through the exchange of notes verbales in 1991. 14.  The applicants filed an action on 16 January 2003 to recover the property and to obtain damages from the Italian authorities. 15.  On 22 June 2004 the Tirana District Court quashed the Commission's decision as regards the physical return of the property to the applicants, since that plot of land had been lawfully occupied by the Italian Embassy since 1991. Instead, it ruled that the applicants should be compensated for 1,600 sq. m in one of the ways provided for by law. The Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, by way of reasoned decisions, upheld the District Court's decision on 25 March 2005 and 6 June 2006, respectively. On 24 November 2006 the applicants lodged a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court. 16.  On 8 December 2006 the Constitutional Court, sitting as a bench of three judges, declared the application inadmissible.