Judgment_paragraph 86 · Adib Mayaleh v Council of the European Union (T-307/12, T-408/13)

86Consequently, unless there are compelling reasons touching on the security of the European Union or of its Member States or the conduct of their international relations which prevent the disclosure of certain information, the Council is required to inform the person or entity covered by restrictive measures of the actual and specific reasons why it considers that those measures had to be adopted. It must thus state the matters of fact and law which constitute the legal basis of the measures concerned and the considerations which led it to adopt them (see, to that effect, Case T‑390/08 Bank Melli Iran v Council, paragraph 85 above, paragraph 81).