000119 declaration prescribed under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, by which it accepts the jurisdiction of the Court to receive applications from individuals and NonGovernmental Organisations. Union Commission on 3 March On 29 February 2016, it notified of its decision to withdraw the aforesaid 2016, the African Union Commission the African Declaration, and notified the Court in this regard. On 3 June 2016, the Court issued an Order stating that the withdrawal of the declaration would take effect on 1 March 2017.1 ll. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION A. 3. The Facts of the matter Applicant alleges that on 21 March 2009, a police officer seized his vehicle on the grounds that it had no motor vehicle license and a spare tyre. He was fined twenty thousand Rwandan francs (RWF 20,000) and "as security for this payment the police seized the yellow card?.” The Applicant avers that on 23 March 2009, he paid the fine of Twenty Thousand Rwandan Francs (RWF 20,000) but the yellow card was not given back to him. 4. He further alleges that “in complicity, his driver ... declared that he had lost the police charge sheet and the receipt, while the police declared verbally to him that they had lost his yellow card.” Thereafter, obtain the duplicate of the yellow argues that “later, through the Applicant went to the tax office to card but his efforts were a conveyor [he] was all in vain. He able to recover the original of the charge sheet ... and that of the receipt". 5. The Applicant alleges that “pursuant to the provisions of Article 40 of Rwandan Law No. 34/1987 of 17/9/1987 on the road transport and traffic police, the payment of the fine puts an end to the government action. Consequently, the fine of twenty thousand Rwandan Francs (RWF 20.000) paid on 23/03/2009 erased the offence and [he] should have been re-established in [his] rights...”. He states that “... However, this was not the case, the vehicle was not returned to him, but was rather parked 1 See Application 003/2014. Order of 3/6/2016, Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza v. Rwanda, on withdrawal by the Respondent State of the declaration it made under Article 34(6) « of the Protocol. 2"Yellow Card" means "Vehicle Registration Card". the 4