Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 03/14/2017

Subject: The Court affirmed that it is not obvious that actions for annulment of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 610/2010 or the acts of the European Union preceding that implementing regulation and relating to the inclusion of the ‘Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)’ on the list referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism, brought before the General Court of the European Union by persons in a situation such as that of the appellants in the main proceedings, would have been admissible. Moreover the Court affirmed that as neither Council Common Position 2001/931/CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism nor Regulation No 2580/2001 precludes actions by armed forces during periods of armed conflict, within the meaning of international humanitarian law, from constituting ‘terrorist acts’ for the purposes of those acts of the European Union, the fact that the activities of the ‘Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)’ may constitute such actions does not affect the validity of Implementing Regulation No 610/2010 or that of the acts of the European Union preceding that implementing regulation

Parties: A e a.

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Right to Property, limits

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