CELEX: 62018TA0065
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-65/18: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — Venezuela v Council (Action for annulment — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken with regard to the situation in Venezuela — Action brought by a third State — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility)

25.11.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/46
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — Venezuela v Council
      (Case T-65/18) (1)
      
      (Action for annulment - Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken with regard to the situation in Venezuela - Action brought by a third State - Lack of individual concern - Inadmissibility)
      (2019/C 399/55)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (represented by: F. Di Gianni and L. Giuliano, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented: initially by P. Mahnič and L. Ozola, and subsequently by P. Mahnič and A. Antoniadis, Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment, first, of Council Regulation (EU) 2017/2063 of 13 November 2017 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela (OJ 2017 L 295, p. 21), secondly, of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1653 of 6 November 2018 implementing Regulation 2017/2063 (OJ 2018 L 276, p. 1), and, thirdly, of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/1656 of 6 November 2018 amending Decision (CFSP) 2017/2074 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela (OJ 2018 L 276, p. 10), in so far as their provisions concern the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 134 du 16.4.2018.