Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 3 April 2008 - PKK v Council
(Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism - Freezing of funds - Action for annulment - Statement of reasons)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Osman Ocalan, on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (represented by: M. Muller QC, E. Grieves and P. Moser, barristers, and J.G. Pierce, Solicitor)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by: M. Vitsentzatos and M. Bishop, and subsequently by M. Bishop and E. Finnegan, Agents)
Interveners in support of the applicant : United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by: R. Caudwell, and subsequently by E. Jenkinson, Agents, assisted by S. Lee, Barrister) and Commission of the European Communities, (represented by: P. Kuijper and C. Brown, and subsequently by P. Hetsch and P. Aalto, Agents)
Re:
Annulment of Council Decision 2002/460/EC: of 17 June 2002 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism and repealing Decision 2002/334/EC (OJ 2002 L 160, p. 26)
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls Council Decision 2002/460/EC of 17 June 2002 implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism and repealing Decision 2002/334/EC in so far as it concerns the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Orders the Council to bear, in addition to its own costs, all the costs incurred by Osman Ocalan on behalf of the PKK before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice.
Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commission of the European Communities to pay their own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 233, 28.9.2002.