Judgment_paragraph 78 · Ahmed Abdelaziz Ezz and Others v Council of the European Union (T-256/11)

78Secondly, the provisions establishing the scheme for that asset-freezing seek neither to punish, nor to prevent the repetition of any conduct. Their sole purpose is to preserve the assets held by the persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 1 of Decision 2011/172 in accordance with the objectives referred to in Article 21(2)(b) and (d) TEU (see paragraph 44 above) (see, to that effect and by analogy, the judgment of 11 July 2007 in Case T‑47/03 Sison v Council, not published in the ECR, paragraph 101, and Case T-49/07 Fahas v Council [2010] ECR II-5555, paragraph 67).