24.8.2015
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 279/25
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour administrative d'appel de Paris (France) lodged on 29 June 2015 — Overseas Financial Limited, Oaktree Finance Limited v Ministre de l’économie, de l'industrie et du numérique
(Case C-319/15)
(2015/C 279/31)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Cour administrative d'appel de Paris
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Overseas Financial Limited, Oaktree Finance Limited
Defendant: Ministre de l'économie, de l'industrie et du numérique
Question referred
Do the provisions of Article 17 of Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 of 25 October 2010 (1) infringe Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the first article of the first additional protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which protect the right to property, read together with Article 47 of that Charter and the first paragraph of Article 6 of the Convention, which guarantee the implementation of a judicial decision within a reasonable period of time, particularly to the extent that those provisions do not provide for the release of frozen funds where a third person relies on a right to payment of debt acquired by virtue of a judicial decision ordering a person designated in a freezing measure to pay an indemnity to him, given at the end of proceedings commenced before that designation, and that those two persons have no relationship, even indirect, connected to the activities covered by the regulation?
(1) Council Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 of 25 October 2010 on restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 (OJ 2010 L 281, p. 1).
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