CELEX: 62019TA0295
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-295/19: Judgment of the General Court of 25 June 2020 — Klymenko v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken in respect of the situation in Ukraine — Freezing of funds — List of persons, entities and bodies to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources applies — Retention of the applicant’s name on the list — Obligation of the Council to verify that the decision of an authority of a third State has been taken in compliance with the rights of the defence and the right to effective judicial protection)

17.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 271/36
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 June 2020 — Klymenko v Council
      (Case T-295/19) (1)
      
      (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken in respect of the situation in Ukraine - Freezing of funds - List of persons, entities and bodies to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources applies - Retention of the applicant’s name on the list - Obligation of the Council to verify that the decision of an authority of a third State has been taken in compliance with the rights of the defence and the right to effective judicial protection)
      (2020/C 271/45)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Oleksandr Viktorovych Klymenko (Moscow, Russia) (represented by M. Phelippeau, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by A. Vitro and P. Mahnič, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Council Decision (CFSP) 2019/354 of 4 March 2019 amending Decision 2014/119/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Ukraine (OJ 2019 L 64, p. 7) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/352 of 4 March 2019 implementing Regulation (EU) No 208/2014 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Ukraine (OJ 2019, L 64, p. 1), in so far as those acts maintain the applicant’s name on the list of persons, entities and bodies to which those restrictive measures apply.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Council Decision (CFSP) 2019/354 of 4 March 2019 amending Decision 2014/119/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Ukraine, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/352, of 4 March 2019 implementing Regulation (EU) No 208/2014 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies with regard to the situation in Ukraine, in so far as the name of Mr Oleksandr Viktorovych Klymenko was maintained on the list of persons, entities and bodies to which those restrictive measures apply.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 213, 24.6.2019.