CELEX: 62015TA0303
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-303/15: Judgment of the General Court of 11 May 2017 — Barqawi v Council (Common Foreign and Security Policy — Restrictive measures adopted against Syria — Freezing of funds — Manifest error of assessment)

3.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 May 2017 — Barqawi v Council
   (Case T-303/15) (1)
   
   ((Common Foreign and Security Policy - Restrictive measures adopted against Syria - Freezing of funds - Manifest error of assessment))
   (2017/C 213/35)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ahmad Barqawi (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) (represented by: J.-P. Buyle and L. Cloquet, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by: G. Étienne and N. Rouam, subsequently by: G. Étienne and S. Kyriakopoulou, and finally by: S. Kyriakopoulou, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2015/383 of 6 March 2015 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2015 L 64, p. 41) and of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/375 of 6 March 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria (OJ 2015 L 64, p. 10), insofar as the applicant’s name has been entered in the list of persons and entities to which the restrictive measures apply.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2015/383 of 6 March 2015 implementing Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/375 of 6 March 2015 implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria inasmuch as they relate to Mr Ahmad Barqawi;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Barqawi.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 245, 27.7.2015.