CELEX: 62016TA0415
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-415/16: Judgment of the General Court of 28 February 2019 — Almashreq Investment Fund v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken against Syria — Freezing of funds — Rights of the defence — Right to effective judicial protection — Duty to state reasons — Error of assessment — Right to respect for one’s good name and reputation — Right to property — Presumption of innocence — Proportionality)

15.4.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 139/44
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 28 February 2019 — Almashreq Investment Fund v Council
      (Case T-415/16) (1)
      
      (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken against Syria - Freezing of funds - Rights of the defence - Right to effective judicial protection - Duty to state reasons - Error of assessment - Right to respect for one’s good name and reputation - Right to property - Presumption of innocence - Proportionality)
      (2019/C 139/42)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Almashreq Investment Fund (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: E. Ruchat, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by S. Kyriakopoulou, G. Étienne and A. Vitro, subsequently by S. Kyriakopoulou and A. Vitro, and finally by S. Kyriakopoulou, A. Vitro and V. Piessevaux, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application brought pursuant to Article 263 TFEU and seeking annulment of Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/850 of 27 May 2016 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2016, L 141, p. 125) and its subsequent implementing acts, Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/917 of 29 May 2017 amending Decision 2013/255 CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2017, L 139, p. 62) and Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/778 of 28 May 2018 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2018, L 131, p. 16), in so far as they concern the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Almashreq Investment Fund to bear its own costs and to pay those of the Council of the European Union.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 364, 3.10.2016.