CELEX: 62017TA0721
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-721/17 and T-722/17: Judgment of the General Court of 11 September 2019 — Topor-Gilka and WO Technopromexport v Council (Common foreign and security policy – Restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine – Freezing of funds – Obligation to state reasons – Error of assessment)

11.11.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 383/58
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 September 2019 — Topor-Gilka and WO Technopromexport v Council
      (Joined Cases T-721/17 and T-722/17) (1)
      
      (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine - Freezing of funds - Obligation to state reasons - Error of assessment)
      (2019/C 383/65)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant in Case T-721/17: Sergey Topor-Gilka (Moscow, Russia) (represented by: N. Meyer, lawyer)
      
         Applicant in Case T-722/17: OOO WO Technopromexport (Moscow, Russia) (represented by: N. Meyer, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J.-P. Hix and E. Salia, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented: initially by T. Henze, J. Möller and R. Kanitz, and subsequently by J. Möller and R. Kanitz, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: L. Baumgart, M. Kellerbauer, T. Ramopoulos and E. Schmidt, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/1418 of 4 August 2017 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2017 L 203 I, p. 5), of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/392 of 12 March 2018 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2018 L 69, p. 48), and of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/1237 of 12 September 2018 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2018 L 231, p. 27).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Mr Sergey Topor-Gilka and OOO WO Technopromexport to bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 424, 11.12.2017.