23With regard to its case-law according to which an applicant may retain an interest in securing the annulment of a decision imposing restrictive measures which has been repealed and replaced (see to that effect, in addition to PKK v Council, paragraphs 46 to 51, Case T-228/02 Organisation des Modjahedines du peuple d’Iran v Council [2006] ECR II-4665, paragraph 35; the judgment of 11 July 2007 in Case T-327/03 Al-Aqsa v Council, paragraph 39; and Case T-256/07 People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran v Council [2008] ECR II-3019, paragraph 48), the General Court held, in paragraph 35 of the order under appeal, that that case-law was developed in a specific context which differs from that in the case in point. Unlike Regulation No 1330/2008, the acts at issue in those cases had not only been repealed, but had also been replaced by new acts, and the restrictive measures relating to the entities concerned had been maintained. The original effects of the acts which had been repealed thus continued, in relation to the entities concerned, through the acts which replaced them. Here, however, according to the General Court, Regulation No 36/2011 quite simply removes Mr Abdulrahim’s name from the list at issue, thereby implicitly repealing Regulation No 1330/2008 in so far as it concerns him, but not replacing the measures laid down by it. The effects produced by Regulation No 1330/2008 do not therefore persist vis-à-vis Mr Abdulrahim. In addition, according to the General Court, that case-law is based on the difference between the effects of the repeal of an act and the effects of its annulment, a factor which is not relevant here, as is apparent from paragraph 32 of the order under appeal.
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