On 13 February 2012, Mr. Abdelhamid Bouchahoua lodged a complaint with the EIB Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM) concerning the expropriation procedure of his land as a result of the construction of the Sfax-Gabès Motorway in Tunisia. The complainant alleged that the expropriation procedure, conducted in relation to the Sfax-Gabès Motorway project, co-financed by the EIB, was carried on in an improper manner in that the national law providing for a fair and prior compensation for the expropriated property (article 2 of the Tunisian Law on expropriation as amended in 2003) had not been respected. More precisely, the complainant alleged that: He did not receive any compensation offer for the future expropriation of his land; He was unable to find an interlocutor at the concerned institutions to whom he could present his case; He was threatened by STA’s employees.