CELEX: 62013TA0274
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-274/13: Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2015 — Emadi v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran — Freezing of funds — Restrictions on the entry into and transit through European Union territory — Legal base — Obligation to state reasons — Right to be heard — Error of assessment — Ne bis in idem — Freedom of expression — Freedom of the media — Freedom to choose an occupation — Free movement — Right to property)

25.1.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2015 — Emadi v Council
   (Case T-274/13) (1)
   
   ((Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran - Freezing of funds - Restrictions on the entry into and transit through European Union territory - Legal base - Obligation to state reasons - Right to be heard - Error of assessment - Ne bis in idem - Freedom of expression - Freedom of the media - Freedom to choose an occupation - Free movement - Right to property))
   (2016/C 027/36)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hamid Reza Emadi (Tehran, Iran) (represented initially by: T. Walter, then by J.M. Viñals Camallonga, L. Barriola Urruticoechea and J.L. Iriarte Ángel, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J.-P. Hix and Á. de Elera-San Miguel Hurtado, agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Stiftung Organisation Justice for Iran (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) (represented by: initially, G. Pulles, then R. Marx, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment in part, first, of Council Decision 2013/124/CSFP of 11 March 2013 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran (OJ 2013 L 68, p. 57), second, of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 206/2013 of 11 March 2013 implementing Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran (OJ 2013 L 68, p. 9), third, of Council Decision 2014/205/CFSP of 10 April 2014 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran (OJ 2014 L 109, p. 25), fourth, Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 371/2014 of 10 April 2014 implementing Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran (OJ 2014 L 109, p. 9), in so far as those measures concern the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Hamid Reza Emadi to pay his own costs and those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Stiftung Organisation Justice for Iran to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 207, of 20.7.2013.