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Paragraph 77
 

Article 47 par. 3, as amended on 8 June 2007 provides that “the funds deposited without indication of the data provided for by the paragraph 2 of this article shall be considered anonymous”, and shall thus “be transferred immediately to the State budget of Georgia”. This measure runs the risk of being disproportionate: it curtails the right to property (First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights) in an excessive way in order to prevent improper deposits while, at the same time, there seem to be far less drastic means to achieve the same end with no lesser level of efficacy.