EU Case Law

On 30 September 2009 the General Court for the second time annulled acts of the Council ordering the freezing of the funds of Mr Jose Maria Sison, a Filipino national residing in the Netherlands. It considered that, contrary to the requirements of EU legislation, the national decisions relied on by the Council in order to freeze Mr Sison’s funds concerned neither the instigation of...

The Court of First Instance upholds the Council’s Decisions freezing the funds of Mr El Morabit.  Those decisions do not breach the principle of the presumption of innocence and the...

The Court of First Instance upholds the Council’s Decision freezing Melli Bank’s funds. The Court concluded that the Council was entitled to conclude that Melli Bank is owned or controlled...

The Court of First Instance annuls the Council Regulation freezing Omar Mohammed Othman’s funds, notably on the ground that the applicant's rights of defence, in particular the right to be heard,...

The Court of First Instance annuls the Council Decision 2007/868/EC of 20 December 2007  implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against...

The Data Retention Directive (Directive 2006/24/CE) is founded on an appropriate legal basis. The directive was correctly adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty as it relates predominantly to...

The ne bis in idem principle enshrined in Article 54 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement (...), does not fall to be applied to a decision by which an authority of a Contracting...