30In their view, the ‘Treaty provides no legal basis for a measure which imposes a total and indefinite freeze on the assets of individuals in the European Union with the sole aim of assisting the authorities of a country outside the European Union with recovering assets at the end of a set of judicial proceedings’. In addition, the applicants submit that it is apparent from the case-law on Articles 60 EC and 301 EC that Article 215 TFEU only authorises the Council to impose restrictive measures on individuals where there is a sufficient link between the individual and a third country government, namely rulers or their associates. However, in the present case, the Council did not even allege that, as at the date of the contested acts, the applicants were rulers or members of the government of Egypt, or associates of such persons.
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