Wednesday 11th September 2024
EU General Court Judgments in Cases T-644/22 Timchenko and Timchenko v Council and T-635/22 Fridman and Others v Council
(External Relations – Common Foreign and Security Policy – Restrictive Measures Ukraine)
The names of Elena Timchenko and those of Gennady Timchenko, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan have been included on the lists of persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures adopted by the Council of the European Union in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In view of the increasing complexity of the systems that make it possible to evade this system of penalties and prevent its implementation, on July 21, 2022 the Council adopted amending Regulation (EU) 2022/1273 laying down obligations to declare funds and cooperate with the competent authorities. Failure to comply with these obligations will be treated as circumventing the freezing of funds.
In practical terms, the aim is to prevent the use of complex legal and financial arrangements which are likely to make it more difficult for the competent national authorities to identify the funds or economic resources subject to restrictive measures, if not easier to circumvent the measures (Judgment in CaseT-644/22).
The parties concerned applied to the General Court of the European Union for the annulment of these obligations to declare their funds or economic resources before September 1, 2022 and to cooperate with the competent national authorities.
They consider that such obligations were not included in the penalty measures adopted by the Council from 2014: in their view, they did not therefore constitute measures necessary for their implementation.
In particular, they consider that the Council Regulation constitutes a misuse of powers because the adoption of the obligations in question should fall within the implementing powers of the Member States.
Mittwoch, 11. September 2024
Urteil des Gerichts in der Rechtssache T‑635/22 Fridman u.a. / Rat
Offenlegungspflichten mit Sanktionen belegter Personen
Die russisch-israelischen Geschäftsleute Mikhail Fridman und German Kahn sowie der russisch-lettische Geschäftsmann Petr Aven begehren vor dem Gericht der EU die Nichtigerklärung der Verordnung (EU) 2022/1273 zur Änderung der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 269/2014 über restriktive Maßnahmen angesichts von Handlungen, die die territoriale Unversehrtheit, Souveränität und Unabhängigkeit der Ukraine untergraben oder bedrohen.
Sie machen u.a. geltend, dass der Rat den von ihm mit Sanktionen belegten Personen keine positiven Verpflichtungen auferlegen dürfe, wie die Pflicht, ihre Vermögenswerte in den Mitgliedstaaten offenzulegen und mit den zuständigen Behörden zu kooperieren. Der Rat sei nicht berechtigt, den Mitgliedstaaten aufzugeben, jeden Verstoß gegen die Offenlegungspflicht der Umgehung von Sanktionen gleichzustellen (welche in 25 der 27 Mitgliedstaaten unter Strafe stehe).
Mittwoch, 11. September 2024
Urteil des Gerichts in der Rechtssache T‑644/22 Timchenko und Timchenko / Rat
Offenlegungspflichten mit Sanktionen belegter Personen
Auch Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko und Elena Petrovna Timchenko begehren vor dem Gericht die Nichtigerklärung der Verordnung (EU) 2022/1273, soweit ihnen mit dieser Verordnung strafbewehrte Offenlegungspflichten auferlegt werden (siehe dazu oben T‑635/22 Fridman u.a. / Rat).
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