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)
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:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Mr Marcel Gossio to bear his own costs and those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
Orders the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
________________________1 OJ C 130, 30.4.2011.