Judgment_paragraph 98 · Athanasios Pitsiorlas v Council of the European Union and European Central Bank (T-3/00, T-337/04)

98The applicant submits, second, that the misleading conduct on the part of the Council necessarily implies that its decision does not meet the requirements of Article 253 EC, or of Article 7(3) of Decision 93/731, and that it must be annulled on that basis (Case C-350/88 Delacre and Others v Commission [1990] ECR I-395, paragraph 15; Case T-85/94 Branco v Commission [1995] ECR II-45, paragraph 32; and Svenska Journalistförbundet v Council, cited in paragraph 89 above, paragraph 116).