CELEX: 62011TO0572
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Order of the President of the General Court of 17 February 2012. # Samir Hassan v Council of the European Union. # Interim measures - Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures against Syria - Freezing of funds and economic resources - Application for interim measures - Lack of urgency - Weighing up of interests. # Case T-572/11 R.

Order of the President of the General Court of 17 February 2012 — Hassan v Council(Case T‑572/11 R)
      Interim measures — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Syria — Freezing of funds and economic resources — Application for interim measures — Lack of urgency — Weighing up of interests
      1.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Prima
            facie case — Urgency — Serious and irreparable damage — Cumulative nature — Balancing of all the interests involved — Order
            of examination and method of verification — Discretion of the court hearing the application for interim relief (Arts 256(1)
            TFEU, 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 14‑16)
      2.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Urgency —
            Serious and irreparable damage — Causal link between the alleged damage and the contested act — Burden of proof (Arts 278
            TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 21, 22)
      3.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Urgency —
            Serious and irreparable damage — Financial loss — Situation which could jeopardise the existence of the applicant company —
            Assessment in the light of the situation of the group to which the applicant belongs — Application to a natural person exercising
            control over that company (Arts 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 33‑36)
      4.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Urgency —
            Serious and irreparable damage — Financial loss — Situation which could jeopardise the existence of the applicant company —
            Burden of proof (Arts 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 38‑40)
      5.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Conditions for granting — Serious and irreparable
            damage — Financial loss — Damage which may subsequently be made good by compensation or by means of an action for damages —
            Damage which cannot be regarded as irreparable (Arts 268 TFEU, 278 TFEU and 340 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court,
            Art. 104(2)) (see para. 47)
      6.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Conditions for granting — Urgency — Serious and
            irreparable damage — Burden of proof — Serious and irreparable damage for the applicant — Interest of the applicant affected —
            Interests of third parties affected — Not included (Art. 278 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see
            para. 50)
      7.                     Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Conditions for granting — Balancing of all the interests
            involved — Concept (Art. 278 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 53, 54)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for interim measures, in particular, application for suspension of operation of Council Implementing Decision
                  2011/515/CFSP of 23 August 2011 implementing Decision 2011/273/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2011
                  L 218, p. 20) and of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 843/2011 of 23 August 2011 implementing Regulation (EU) No 442/2011
                  concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria (OJ 2011 L 218, p. 1) insofar as those texts refer to the
                  applicant.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The application for interim measures is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Costs are reserved.