CELEX: 62011TA0509
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-509/11: Judgment of the General Court of 21 January 2015 — Makhlouf v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Syria — Freezing of funds — Duty to state reasons — Rights of the defence — Right to effective judicial protection — Manifest error of assessment — Right to property — Right to privacy — Proportionality)

2.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/22
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 21 January 2015 — Makhlouf v Council
      (Case T-509/11) (1)
      
      (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures against Syria - Freezing of funds - Duty to state reasons - Rights of the defence - Right to effective judicial protection - Manifest error of assessment - Right to property - Right to privacy - Proportionality)
      (2015/C 073/28)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Mohammad Makhlouf (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: C. Rygaert and G. Karouni, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M.-M. Joséphidès and G. Étienne, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for annulment of Council Implementing Decision 2011/488/CFSP of 1 August 2011 implementing Decision 2011/273/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2011 L 199, p. 74), Council Decision 2011/782/CFSP of 1 December 2011 concerning restrictive measures against Syria and repealing Decision 2011/273/CFSP (OJ 2011 L 319, p. 56) and Council Decision 2012/739/CFSP of 29 November 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Syria and repealing Decision 2011/782/CFSP (OJ 2012 L 330, p. 21), in so far as those acts concern the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Mohammad Makhlouf to bear his own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 340, 19.11.2011.