stitution.
B. The Court's assessment
1. Admissibility
34. In view of the domestic authorities' decision to grant parental leave to the applicant and to give him financial aid, the Court has to consider, firstly, whether the applicant can still claim to be a victim, within the meaning of Article 34, of the alleged violation of the Convention and, secondly, whether the matter has been resolved within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (b) of the Convention.
(a) Victim status
35. The Court reiterates that a decision or measure favourable to the applicant is not in principle sufficient to deprive him of his status as a "victim" unless the national authorities have acknowledged, either expressly or in substance, and then afforded redress for, the breach of the Convention (see, for example, Amuur v. France, 25 June 1996, § 36, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1996-III, and Dalban v. Romania [GC], No. 28114/95, § 44, ECHR 1999-VI).
36. In the present case no express acknowledgment of a breach of Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8 has been made by the national authorities in the domestic proceedings or in the Strasbourg proceedings. Nor could the decision to grant parental leave and to pay financial aid to the applicant be interpreted as acknowledging, in substance, that his right not to be discriminated against on account of sex had been breached. Indeed, both the parental leave and the financial aid were granted by reference to the applicant's difficult family and financial situations (see paragraph 16 above). Moreover, even after the applicant was allowed, exceptionally, to take parental leave, the domestic courts continued to hold that he, being a serviceman, had no statutory entitlement to parental leave and that his ineligibility for such leave did not breach his right to equal treatment (see paragraphs 17 and 19 above).
37. In the absence of an acknowledgment by the national authorities of a breach of the applicant's rights under the Convention, the Court holds that he may claim to be the victim of the alleged discriminatory treatment for the purposes of Article 34 of the Convention.
(b) Application of Article 37 § 1 of the Convention
38. The Court will further examine the Government's argument that, in view of the measures taken by the domestic authorities to redress the applicant's situation, the matter had been effectively resolved and the application should be struck out of the Court's list of cases in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (b) of the Convention. Article 37 § 1 reads:
"The Court may at any stage of the proceedings decide to strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that
(a) the applicant does not intend to pursue his application; or
(b) the matter has been resolved; or
(c) for any other reason established by the Court, it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.
However, the Court shall continue the examination of the application if respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto so requires."
39. Since the applicant gave a clear indication that he intended to pursue his application, sub-paragraph (a) of Article 37 § 1 is not applicable. That does not, however, rule out the possibility of applying sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), the applicant's consent not being a prerequisite for their application (see Akman v. Turkey (striking out), No. 37453/97, ECHR 2001-VI, and Pisano v. Italy [GC] (striking out), No. 36732/97, § 41, 24 October 2002). However, before taking a decision to strike out a particular case, the Court must verify whether respect for human rights as defined in the Convention requires it to continue the examination of the case. The Court reiterates in this respect tha
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