Judgment_paragraph 31 · Ahmed Abdelaziz Ezz and Others v Council of the European Union (T-256/11)

31As stated in paragraph 28 above, the applicants seek the annulment only of the Annex to Decision 2011/172 and Annex I to Regulation No 270/2011. However, those annexes were not adopted directly on the basis of a provision of the Treaties, but pursuant to Article 1(1) of Decision 2011/172 and Article 2(1) of Regulation No 270/2011, respectively. Consequently, in pleading an infringement of the Treaties, the applicants in fact raise two pleas of illegality for the purpose of Article 277 TFEU: they challenge the legality of Article 1(1) of Decision 2011/172 and of Article 2(1) of Regulation No 270/2011 in the light of the Treaties.