CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE COUNCIL OF EUROPE COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS THIRD SECTION DECISION AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF Application no. 54934/00 by Gabriele WEBER and Cesar Richard SARAVIA against Germany The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 29 June 2006 as a Chamber composed of: Mr B.M. ZUPANČIČ, President, Mr L. CAFLISCH, Mr C. BÎRSAN, Mr V. ZAGREBELSKY, Mr E. MYJER, Mr DAVID THÓR BJÖRGVINSSON, judges, Mr A. ZIMMERMANN, ad hoc judge, and Mr V. BERGER, Section Registrar, Having regard to the above application lodged on 10 January 2000, Having regard to the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations in reply submitted by the applicants, Having deliberated, decides as follows: THE FACTS 1. The first applicant, Ms Gabriele Weber, is a German national. The second applicant, Mr Cesar Richard Saravia, is a Uruguayan national. Both applicants live in Montevideo (Uruguay). They were represented before the Court by Mr W. Kaleck, a lawyer practising in Berlin, and by Mr E. Schwan, a university professor in Berlin. The German Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agents, Mr K. Stoltenberg, Ministerialdirigent, and, subsequently, Mrs A. Wittling-Vogel, Ministerialdirigentin, of the Federal Ministry of Justice.