113As regards the personal position of each of the appellants, suffice it to note that the validity of their inclusion in the lists annexed to Decision 2011/172 and Regulation No 270/2011 was reviewed by the General Court in its reply to the fourth plea of the action for annulment. It should be noted in that regard that the General Court referred to Article 1(3) of Decision 2011/172, according to which the competent authorities of the Member States may, under certain conditions, in any given case authorise that certain frozen funds or economic resources be released or be made available. Article 4 of Regulation No 270/2011 contains a similar provision. Having regard to the specific objective of the freezing of funds in relation to all the appellants (namely to immobilise assets likely to become part of the appellants’ estates following the misappropriation of State funds to the detriment of the Egyptian authorities), to the temporary and reversible nature of the measures, to which reference is made in paragraph 209 of the judgment under appeal, and to the fact that those provisions allow certain funds to be released in any given case, the General Court was not obliged to review the proportionality of the restrictive measure in relation to each appellant.
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