Judgment_paragraph 72 · Abdulbasit Abdulrahim v Council of the European Union and European Commission (C-239/12 P)

72Indeed, whilst recognition of the illegality of the contested act cannot, as such, compensate for material harm or for interference with one’s private life, it is nevertheless capable, as Mr Abdulrahim has submitted, of rehabilitating him or constituting a form of reparation for the non-material harm which he has suffered by reason of that illegality, and of thereby establishing that he retains his interest in bringing proceedings (see, to that effect, Case 155/78 M. v Commission [1980] ECR 1797, paragraph 6, and Case C-343/87 Culin v Commission [1990] ECR I-225, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited).