CELEX: 62012TA0110
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-110/12: Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2013 — Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Iran with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation — Freezing of funds — Action for annulment — Time-limit for amendment of the form of order sought — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment)

19.10.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 304/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2013 — Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction v Council
   (Case T-110/12) (1)
   
   (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures against Iran with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation - Freezing of funds - Action for annulment - Time-limit for amendment of the form of order sought - Admissibility - Obligation to state reasons - Manifest error of assessment)
   2013/C 304/32
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction Co. (Tehran, Iran) (represented by: J. Viñals Camallonga, L. Barriola Urruticoechea and J. Iriarte Ángel, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: P. Plaza García, V. Piessevaux and G. Ramos Ruano, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, first, of Council Decision 2011/783/CFSP of 1 December 2011 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2011 L 319, p. 71), and, secondly, of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1245/2011 of 1 December 2011 implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on restrictive measures against Iran (OJ 2011 L 319, p. 11), and of Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 (OJ 2012 L 88, p. 1), in so far as those acts concern the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Council Decision 2011/783/CFSP of 1 December 2011 amending Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it included the name of Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction Co. in Annex II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Common Position 2007/140/CFSP;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1245/2011 of 1 December 2011 implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on restrictive measures against Iran in so far as it included the name of Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction in Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 of 25 October 2010 on restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EC) No 423/2007;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Annuls Annex IX to Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation No 961/2010 in so far as it concerns Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the effects of Decision 2010/413, as amended by Decision 2011/783, to be maintained as regards Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction, from its entry into force, on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, until the annulment in part of Regulation No 267/2012 takes effect;
            
         
               5.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction, in the present proceedings and in the proceedings for interim measures.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 126, 28.4.2012.