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Posts published in September 2009

EU Fundamental Rights and Counter-Terrorist Blacklisting in the Next Round: The El Morabit Decision of the CFI (T-37/07 and T-323/07)

A brief follow-up on the ECJ’s Kadi decision and the Court of First Instance’s (CFI) – slightly less famous – PMOI decisions we reported earlier on (see here, here and here). The Kadi decision dealt with an EU regulation implementing a UN blacklist which provided for the freezing of financial means of suspected Al Quaida and Taliban member. Similarly, the PMOI dealt with an (autonomous) EU blacklist on other terrorist suspects. In both cases, the Courts had declared the blacklists to be violating EU fundamental rights for procedural reasons. On 2 September of this year, the CFI has further developed…