CELEX: 62011TA0383
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-383/11: Judgment of the General Court of 13 September 2013 — Makhlouf v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Syria — Freezing of funds and economic resources — Restrictions on entry into, or transit through, the territory of the European Union — Rights of defence — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment — Fundamental rights)

26.10.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 313/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 September 2013 — Makhlouf v Council
   (Case T-383/11) (1)
   
   (Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures against Syria - Freezing of funds and economic resources - Restrictions on entry into, or transit through, the territory of the European Union - Rights of defence - Obligation to state reasons - Manifest error of assessment - Fundamental rights)
   2013/C 313/44
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Eyad Makhlouf (Damascus, Syria) (represented: initially by P. Grollet and G. Karouni, and subsequently by G. Karouni and C. Rygaert, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: G. Étienne and R. Liudvinaviciute-Cordeiro, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Council Implementing Decision 2011/302/CFSP of 23 May 2011 implementing Decision 2011/273/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2011 L 136, p. 91), of Council Decision 2011/782/CFSP of 1 December 2011 concerning restrictive measures against Syria and repealing Decision 2011/273/CFSP (OJ 2011 L 319, p. 56), and of Council Decision 2012/739/CFSP of 29 November 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Syria and repealing Decision 2011/782/CFSP (OJ 2012 L 330, p. 21), in so far as those acts concern the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Eyad Makhlouf to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 282, 24.9.2011.