4.  The applicant was born in 1943 and lives in Plovdiv. 5.  For the period between 2 November 1993 and 11 August 1995 the applicant worked for a consortium of four companies. As he did not receive the full amount of his salaries and compensation for his unused paid leave, on 27 October 1995 he initiated civil proceedings for these amounts against one of the companies in the consortium. 6.  For the period between 5 March 1996 and 4 June 1997 at least four hearings appear to have been held and two expert opinions were commissioned. 7.  On 4 June 1997, upon the applicant’s request, the other three companies were constituted as defendants. 8.  For the period between 4 June 1997 and 18 November 1998 at least five hearings appear to have been held. 9.  In a judgment of 5 January 1999 the Sofia City Court granted part of the applicant’s claim. The judgment was not appealed against and became final. 10.  On an unspecified date after 5 January 1999 the applicant requested the issue of a writ of execution, which was done on 26 February 1999. The applicant submitted that he became aware of this fact on 22 July 1999. On the latter date he requested the opening of enforcement proceedings. 11.  On 25 August 1999 the enforcement officer invited the debtors to voluntarily pay the amounts under the writ of execution. On 27 January 2000 the applicant requested from the enforcement officer the undertaking of certain actions for collecting the debt. On 28 January 2000 the enforcement officer requested an attachment on the bank accounts of the debtors. 12.  On 2 December 2001 the applicant requested to be accepted as a creditor under two other enforcement proceedings against the same debtors, which was granted on 11 December. On 15 April 2002, a certain distribution of payments to different creditors was proposed, as a result of which the applicant agreed to receive payment in instalments. 13.  On 16 April 2004 the applicant again requested the enforcement officer to undertake actions for collecting his debt. On 19 April 2004 the enforcement officer requested attachments on the bank accounts of the debtors. 14.  It does not appear that for the periods between 17 January 2000 and 2 December 2001, between 2 December 2001 and 15 April 2002 and between 15 April 2002 and 16 April 2004 the applicant requested any other actions to be undertaken or the enforcement officer undertook any such actions. 15.  On 8 November 2004 the applicant requested his proceedings to be joined with another set of enforcement proceedings against the same debtors. On 9 November 2004 the enforcement officer requested the case files in those proceedings. The parties have not informed the Court whether the said proceedings were joined. 16.  On 12 August 2005 the applicant requested the calculation of the amounts of the awarded interest. On 16 September 2005 an expert appointed by the enforcement officer submitted the calculation. He concluded that the due sums, plus interest amounted to 40,834.17 dollars (USD) and 55 Bulgarian levs (BGN). 17.  On 8 November 2005 the applicant concluded an out-of-court agreement with the consortium, under which the former agreed to receive the amount of 33,000 USD, the equivalent of BGN 54,484.96 and undertook the obligation to request the termination of the enforcement proceedings immediately after he had received this amount. 18.  On an unspecified date shortly thereafter the applicant received the above amount and the enforcement proceedings were terminated.