CELEX: C2007/069/42
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-362/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 31 January 2007 — Minin v Commission (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures in respect of Liberia — Freezing of funds of persons associated with Charles Taylor — Competence of the Community — Fundamental rights — Action for annulment)

24.3.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 69/18
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 31 January 2007 — Minin v Commission
   (Case T-362/04) (1)
   
   (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures in respect of Liberia - Freezing of funds of persons associated with Charles Taylor - Competence of the Community - Fundamental rights - Action for annulment)
   (2007/C 69/42)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Leonid Minin (Tel-Aviv, Israel) (represented by: T. Ballarino and C. Bovio, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: E. Montaguti, L. Visaggio and C. Brown, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by S. Marquardt and F. Ruggeri Laderchi, and subsequently by S. Marquardt and A. Vitro, Agents); and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by R. Caudwell, and subsequently by E. Jenkinson, Agents)
   Re:
   Originally, annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1149/2004 of 22 June 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 872/2004 concerning further restrictive measures in relation to Liberia (OJ 2004 L 222, p. 17), and, subsequently, annulment in part of Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2005 of 9 June 2005 amending Regulation No 872/2004 (OJ 2005 L 146, p. 5).
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to bear, in addition to his own costs, those of the Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 6.11.2004.