CELEX: 62015TA0149
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-149/15: Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2017 — Ben Ali v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Tunisia — Freezing of funds — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Legal basis — Reinclusion of the applicant’s name on the basis of new grounds — Obligation to state reasons — Factual basis — Right to property — Proportionality)

20.11.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 392/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2017 — Ben Ali v Council
   (Case T-149/15) (1)
   
   ((Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Tunisia - Freezing of funds - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Legal basis - Reinclusion of the applicant’s name on the basis of new grounds - Obligation to state reasons - Factual basis - Right to property - Proportionality))
   (2017/C 392/23)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sirine Bent Zine El Abidine Ben Haj Hamda Ben Ali (Tunis, Tunisia) (represented by: S. Maktouf, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented: initially by Á. de Elera-San Miguel Hurtado and G. Étienne, and subsequently by Á. de Elera San Miguel Hurtado, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/157 of 30 January 2015 amending Decision 2011/72/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Tunisia (OJ 2015 L 26, p. 29) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/147 of 30 January 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No 101/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Tunisia (OJ 2015 L 26, p. 3), in so far as those acts concern the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sirine Bent Zine El Abidine Ben Haj Hamda Ben Ali to bear her own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 10.8.2015.