CELEX: 62008TO0246
Language: en
Date: 2008-08-27 00:00:00
Title: Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 27 August 2008. # Melli Bank plc v Council of the European Union. # Applications for interim measures - Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 - Restrictive measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran - Council decision - Measure to freeze funds and economic resources - Application for suspension of operation of a measure - No urgency - Absence of serious and irreparable damage. # Case T-246/08 R.

Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 27 August 2008 – Melli Bank v Council
      (Case T-246/08 R)
      Applications for interim measures – Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 – Restrictive measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran – Council decision – Measure to freeze funds and economic resources – Application for suspension of operation of a measure – No urgency – Absence of serious and irreparable damage
      1.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency
            – Serious and irreparable damage – Financial loss (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance,
            Art. 104(2)) (see paras 32-34, 36-38, 43)
      2.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Serious
            and irreparable damage – Financial loss (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2))
            (see para. 35)
      3.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and
            irreparable damage (Art. 242 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see para. 50)
      4.                     European Communities – Judicial review of the legality of the acts of the institutions (Arts 60 EC, 301 EC and 308 EC; Council
            Regulation No 423/2007) (see para. 52)
      5.                     Application for interim measures – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency
            (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see paras 53-55)
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION for suspension of the application of paragraph 4, section B, of the Annex to Council Decision 2008/475/EC of 23
                  June 2008 implementing Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2008 L 163,
                  p. 29), in so far as Melli Bank plc is included in the list of legal persons, entities and bodies whose funds and economic
                  resources are frozen.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the application for interim measures;
               
            
         
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                  	Reserves the costs.