CELEX: 62012TA0202
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-202/12: Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2014  — Al Assad v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken against Syria — Freezing of funds — Entry of an individual on the lists of persons subject to restrictive measures — Personal ties to members of the regime — Rights of the defence — Fair hearing — Obligation to state reasons — Burden of proof — Right to effective judicial protection — Proportionality — Right to property — Right to privacy)

28.4.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/18
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2014 — Al Assad v Council
   (Case T-202/12) (1)
   
   ((Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken against Syria - Freezing of funds - Entry of an individual on the lists of persons subject to restrictive measures - Personal ties to members of the regime - Rights of the defence - Fair hearing - Obligation to state reasons - Burden of proof - Right to effective judicial protection - Proportionality - Right to property - Right to privacy))
   2014/C 129/22
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Bouchra Al Assad (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: G. Karouni and C. Dumont, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: G. Étienne and M.-M. Joséphidès, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment in part, first, of Council Implementing Decision 2012/172/CFSP of 23 March 2012 implementing Decision 2011/782/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2012 L 87, p. 103); secondly, 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); thirdly, of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 363/2013 of 22 April 2013 implementing Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria (OJ 2013 L 111, p. 1, corrigendum OJ 2013 L 127, p. 27); and, fourthly, of Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP of 31 May 2013 concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2013 L 147, p. 14), in so far as those acts relate to the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Ms Bouchra Al Assad to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 217, 21.7.2012.