It follows that, although Croatia is not obliged under Article 9 of the Convention to allow religious education in public schools and nurseries or to recognise religious marriages, the facts of the instant case nevertheless fall within the wider ambit of that Article (see, for example and mutatis mutandis, Thlimmenos v. Greece [GC], no. 34369/97, §§ 40-43, ECHR 2000-IV; Löffelmann v. Austria, no. 42967/98, §§ 46-48, 12 March 2009; and Gütl v. Austria, no. 49686/99, §§ 31-33, 12 March 2009).

Article 13 does not however presuppose that the remedy or remedies resorted to must always be successful (see Löffelmann v. Austria (dec.), no. 42967/98, 1 February 2005).