105Observance of that obligation to communicate the grounds is necessary both to enable the persons to whom restrictive measures are addressed to defend their rights in the best possible conditions and to decide, with full knowledge of the relevant facts, whether there is any point in their applying to the Courts of the European Union (see, to that effect, Case 222/86 Heylens and Others [1987] ECR 4097, paragraph 15), and to put those Courts fully in a position in which they may carry out the review of the lawfulness of the Community act in question, which is their duty under the Treaty (Kadi, paragraph 103 above, paragraph 337).
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