CELEX: 62007TA0037
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-37/07 and T-323/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 2 September 2009 — El Morabit v Council (Common Foreign and Security Policy — Restrictive measures with a view to combating terrorism — Freezing of funds — List of persons, groups and entities — Action for annulment)

24.10.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/23
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 2 September 2009 — El Morabit v Council
   (Joined Cases T-37/07 and T-323/07) (1)
   
   (Common Foreign and Security Policy - Restrictive measures with a view to combating terrorism - Freezing of funds - List of persons, groups and entities - Action for annulment)
   2009/C 256/42
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mohamed El Morabit (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: U. Sarikaya, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: E. Finnegan, G. Van Hegelsom and B. Driessen, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: C. Wissels and M. De Mol, and, in Case T-37/07, M. de Grave and, in Case T-323/07, Y. de Vries and M. Noort, Agents); and Commission of the European Communities (represented: in Case T-37/07 by S. Boelaert and J. Aquilina, and in Case T-323/07 by P. van Nuffel and S. Boelaert, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for the annulment, in part, of, first, Council Decision 2007/445/EC of 28 June 2007 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism and repealing Decisions 2006/379/EC and 2006/1008/EC (OJ 2007 L 169, p. 58) and, second, Council Decision 2006/1008/EC of 21 December 2006 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (OJ 2006 L 379, p. 123), in so far as the name of the applicant appears on the lists of persons, groups and entities to which those provisions apply.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Mohamed El Morabit to bear his own costs and pay those of the Council;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82, 14. 4. 2007.