Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Court of first instance of the European Communities

Date: 09/30/2009

Subject: The Court stated that a decision to ‘instigate investigations or prosecute’ must, if the Council is to be able validly to invoke it, form part of national proceedings seeking, directly and chiefly, the imposition on the person concerned of measures of a preventive or punitive nature, in connection with the combating of terrorism and by reason of that person’s involvement in terrorism.

Parties: Sison

Classification: Justice - Art. 48 Presumption of innocence

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