CELEX: 62018TA0490
Language: en
Date: 2020-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-490/18: Judgment of the General Court of 8 July 2020 –Neda Industrial Group v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken against Iran with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation — Freezing of funds — Retention of the applicant’s name on the lists of persons, entities and bodies subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources — Obligation to state reasons — Error of law — Error of assessment — Temporal adjustment of the effects of an annulment)

12.10.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 339/11
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 July 2020 –Neda Industrial Group v Council
      (Case T-490/18) (1)
      
      (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken against Iran with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation - Freezing of funds - Retention of the applicant’s name on the lists of persons, entities and bodies subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources - Obligation to state reasons - Error of law - Error of assessment - Temporal adjustment of the effects of an annulment)
      (2020/C 339/13)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Neda Industrial Group (Tehran, Iran) (represented by: L. Vidal, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: V. Piessevaux and M. Bishop, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment, first, of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/833 of 4 June 2018 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2018 L 140, p. 87), and of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/827 of 4 June 2018 implementing Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2018 L 140, p. 3), in so far as those acts concern the applicant, and, second, of the letter of 6 June 2018 from the Council to the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/833 of 4 June 2018 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/827 of 4 June 2018 implementing Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran, in so far as they concern Neda Industrial Group;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders that the effects of Decision 2018/833 be maintained as regards Neda Industrial Group until the annulment of Implementing Regulation 2018/827 takes effect;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 5.11.2018.