Judgment_paragraph 146 · Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank SAL v Council of the European Union (T-174/12, T-80/13)

146In any event, even if it is assumed that the Council ought to have provided the applicant with the documents communicated on 3 July 2012 before the action was brought against the contested measures in Case T‑174/12, it must be stated that this would be an immaterial error since, had there been no error, the applicant would not have been better able to defend itself (see, by analogy, judgment of the Court of Justice of 16 February 2012 in Joined Cases C-191/09 P and C-200/09 P Council v Interpipe Niko Tube and Interpipe NTRP [2012] ECR, paragraph 78, and Case T-25/06 Alliance One International v Commission [2011] ECR II-5741, paragraph 183).