CELEX: 62014TA0681
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-681/14: Judgment of the General Court of 28 March 2017 — El-Qaddafi v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken against Libya — Freezing of funds — Restrictions on the entry into and transit through the territory of the European Union — Retention of the applicant’s name — Rights of the defence — Obligation to state reasons)

15.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 151/28
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 March 2017 — El-Qaddafi v Council
   (Case T-681/14) (1)
   
   ((Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken against Libya - Freezing of funds - Restrictions on the entry into and transit through the territory of the European Union - Retention of the applicant’s name - Rights of the defence - Obligation to state reasons))
   (2017/C 151/34)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Aisha Muammer Mohamed El-Qaddafi (Muscat, Oman) (represented by: initially J. Jones QC, and subsequently by S. Bafadhel, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: S. Kyriakopoulou and A. de Elera-San Miguel Hurtado, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment, first, of Council Decision 2014/380/CFSP of 23 June 2014 amending Decision 2011/137/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya (OJ 2014 L 183, p. 52), in so far as it maintains the applicant’s name on the list in Annexes I and III to Council Decision 2011/137/CFSP of 28 February 2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya (OJ 2011 L 58, p. 53), and, secondly, of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 689/2014 of 23 June 2014 implementing Article 16(2) of Regulation (EU) No 204/2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya (OJ 2014 L 183, p. 1), in so far as it maintains the applicant’s name on the list in Annex II to Council Regulation (EU) No 204/2011 of 2 March 2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya (OJ 2011 L 58, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Council Decision 2014/380/CFSP of 23 June 2014 amending Decision 2011/137/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya, in so far as it maintains the name of Ms Aisha Muammer Mohamed El-Qaddafi on the list in Annexes I and III to Council Decision 2011/137/CFSP of 28 February 2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 689/2014 of 23 June 2014 implementing Article 16(2) of Regulation (EU) No 204/2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya, in so far as it maintains the name of Ms El-Qaddafi on the list in Annex II to Council Regulation (EU) No 204/2011 of 2 March 2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 431, 1.12.2014.