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PRESS RELEASE No 138/23

Luxembourg, 13 September 2023

Judgment of the General Court in Case T-65/18 RENV | Venezuela v Council

The General Court dismisses the action brought by Venezuela against the restrictive measures of the European Union

Having regard to the worsening of the situation regarding human rights, the rule of law and democracy, on 13 November 2017 the Council of the European Union adopted restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela. 1 Those measures laid down, in essence, a prohibition on the sale, supply, transfer or export of equipment which might be used for internal repression and services related to that equipment and military equipment to any natural or legal person, entity or body in, or for use in, Venezuela.

On 6 February 2018, Venezuela brought an action before the General Court of the European Union seeking the annulment of Regulation 2017/2063 in so far as the provisions of that regulation concerned it. Subsequently, Venezuela amended its action to cover, in addition, Decision 2018/1656 and Implementing Regulation 2018/1653 2 , acts by which the Council had, respectively, extended and amended the restrictive measures adopted. 

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