# C_2013225EN.01007602.xml

| 3.8.2013 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 225/76 |
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3.8.2013

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 225/76

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Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2013 — HTTS v Council

(Case T-128/12) (1)

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(Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures adopted against Iran in order to prevent nuclear proliferation - Freezing of funds - Manifest error of assessment)

2013/C 225/170

Language of the case: German

Parties

Parties

Applicant: HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: J. Kienzle and M. Schlingmann, lawyers)

Applicant:

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by: M. Bishop, Z. Kupčová and F. Naert and subsequently by: Bishop and Z. Kupčová, acting as Agents)

Defendant:

Intervener in support of the defendant (Case T-182/12: Federal Republic of Germany (represented initially by: J. Möller, T. Henze and N. Graf Vitzthum and subsequently by: J. Möller and T. Henze, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant (Case T-182/12:

Re:

Re:

In Case T-128/12, application for annulment of Council Decision 2012/35/CFSP of 23 January 2012 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2012 L 19, p. 22), in that it listed the applicant’s name on new grounds in Annex II to Council Decision 2010/413/CFSP of 26 July 2010 concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2010 L 195, p. 39) and of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 54/2012 of 23 January 2012 implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2012 L 19, p. 1) in so far as the applicants’ names have been listed on new grounds in Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 of 25 October 2010 on restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 (OJ 2010 L 281, p. 1) and, in Case T-182/12, application for annulment of Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 (OJ 2012 L 88, p. 1), in so far as the applicant’s name has been maintained in the list of persons and entities and bodies whose assets have been frozen.

Operative part of the judgment

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

| 1. | Joins Cases T-128/12 and T-182/12 for the purposes of the judgment; |
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Joins Cases T-128/12 and T-182/12 for the purposes of the judgment;

| 2. | Rules that, in Case T-128/12, there is no further need to adjudicate on the application for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 54/2012 of 23 January 2012 implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it concerns HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping GmbH; |
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Rules that, in Case T-128/12, there is no further need to adjudicate on the application for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 54/2012 of 23 January 2012 implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it concerns HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping GmbH;

| 3. | Annuls Council Decision 2012/35/CFSP of 23 January 2012 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it has entered the name of HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping in Annex II to Decision 2010/413; |
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Annuls Council Decision 2012/35/CFSP of 23 January 2012 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it has entered the name of HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping in Annex II to Decision 2010/413;

| 4. | Annuls Annex IX to Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 in so far as it concerns HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping; |
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Annuls Annex IX to Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 in so far as it concerns HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping;

| 5. | Upholds the effects of Council Decision 2010/413/CFSP of 26 July 2010 concerning restrictive measures against Iran, as amended by Decision 2012/35, as regards HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping, since its entry into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union until the annulment in part of Regulation No 267/2012 takes effect; |
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Upholds the effects of Council Decision 2010/413/CFSP of 26 July 2010 concerning restrictive measures against Iran, as amended by Decision 2012/35, as regards HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping, since its entry into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union until the annulment in part of Regulation No 267/2012 takes effect;

| 6. | Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs incurred by HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping and to bear its own costs; |
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Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs incurred by HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping and to bear its own costs;

| 7. | Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs. |
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Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.

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(1)  OJ C 157, 2.6.2012.

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