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(Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine - Freezing of funds - List of persons, entities and bodies subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources - Retention of the of the applicant’s name on the list - Concept of ‘leading businessperson’ - Concept of ‘businesspersons involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation’ - Article 2(1)(a) and (g) of Decision 2014/145/CFSP - Plea of illegality - Obligation to state reasons - Right to effective judicial protection and rights of the defence - Error of assessment - Proportionality - Right to property - Right to be heard)
(C/2025/1097)
Language of the case: French
Applicant: Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (Khutor Sokolsky, Russia) (represented by: T. Bontinck, M. Brésart and J. Goffin, lawyer)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: V. Piessevaux and M.-C. Cadilhac, acting as Agents, and by B. Maingain, lawyer)
Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito, C. Georgieva and L. Puccio, acting as Agents)
By his action, the applicant claims that the Court should, first, on the basis of Article 263 TFEU, annul (i) Council Decision (CSFP) 2022/1530 of 14 September 2022 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2022 L 239, p. 149) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1529 of 14 September 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2022 L 239, p. 1), (ii) Council Decision (CSFP) 2023/572 of 13 March 2023 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2023 L 75 I, p. 134) and of 13 March 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2023 L 75 I, p. 1), (iii) Council Decision (CSFP) 2023/1767 of 13 September 2023 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ 2023 L 226, p. 104) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1765 of 13 September 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (JO 2023, L 226, p. 3), and (iv) Council Decision (CSFP) 2024/847 of 12 March 2024 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L 2024/847) and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/849 of 12 March 2024 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L, 2024/849), in so far as those acts all concern the applicant, and, second, on the basis of Article 268 TFEU, order compensation for the non-material damage the applicant claims to have suffered as a result of the adoption of the contested acts.
The Court:
1.Dismisses the action;
2.Orders Mr Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;
3.Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.
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Language of the case: French.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/1097/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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