167It must be emphasised that the foregoing considerations, which relate to an analysis of whether the defendant institutions have complied with the obligation to state reasons, do not, in the circumstances of this case and in view of the particular situation in Zimbabwe (see paragraph 130 above), involve either the creation of a presumption or a reversal in the burden of proof to the detriment of the parties concerned. Their significance is simply that the reference, in the grounds of the contested acts, to posts formerly occupied by some applicants, discloses that the authors of those acts considered that, for that reason, the applicants concerned remained associates of the Zimbabwean leadership and that they were not aware of anything to call into question that proposition. In the event of challenge, it is the task of the authors of the contested acts to establish, before the Courts of the European Union, the truth of the link with the government by reason of the posts formerly occupied by the parties concerned, the latter also having the right to submit, for purposes of rebuttal, any evidence in their possession to the contrary.
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