CELEX: 62013TA0406
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-406/13: Judgment of the General Court of 14 January 2015  — Gossio v Council (Common Foreign and Security Policy — Specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire — Freezing of funds — Misuse of power — Manifest error of assessment — Fundamental Rights)

23.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 65/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 January 2015 — Gossio v Council
   (Case T-406/13) (1)
   
   ((Common Foreign and Security Policy - Specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire - Freezing of funds - Misuse of power - Manifest error of assessment - Fundamental Rights))
   (2015/C 065/45)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Marcel Gossio (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) (represented by: S. Zokou, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: B. Driessen and G. Étienne, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, first, of Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 of 12 April 2005 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire (OJ 2005 L 95, p. 1), Council Decision 2010/656/CFSP of 29 October 2010 renewing the restrictive measures against Côte d’Ivoire (OJ 2010 L 285, p. 28), and Council Implementing Decision 2012/144/CFSP of 8 March 2012 implementing Decision 2010/656 (OJ 2012 L 71, p. 50) insofar as they concern the applicant, and, second, of the Council’s decision of 17 May 2013 to maintain the restrictive measures relating to the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               annuls Council Implementing Decision 2014/271/CFSP of 12 May 2014 implementing Decision 2010/656/CFSP renewing the restrictive measures against Côte d'Ivoire and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 479/2014 of 12 May 2014 implementing Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire in so far as they relate to the applicant;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               orders each party to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 26.10.2013.