CELEX: 62011TA0130
Language: en
Date: 2013-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-130/11: Judgment of the General Court of 25 April 2013 — 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 — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment)

8.6.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 164/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 April 2013 — Gossio v Council
   (Case T-130/11) (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 - Obligation to state reasons - Manifest error of assessment)
   2013/C 164/27
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Marcel Gossio (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) (represented: initially by G. Collard then S. Zokou, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: B. Driessen and G. Étienne, agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bordes and M. Konstantinidis, agents) and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (represented by: J.-P. Mignard, J.-P. Benoit and G. Merland, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, first, of Council Decision 2011/18/CFSP of 14 January 2011 amending Council Decision 2010/656/CFSP renewing the restrictive measures against Côte d’Ivoire (OJ 2011 L 11, p. 36), and, second, of Council Regulation (EU) No 25/2011 of 14 January 2011 amending 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 (OJ 2011 L 11, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Marcel Gossio to bear his own costs and those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 130, 30.4.2011.