Judgment_paragraph 78 · National Iranian Oil Company v Council of the European Union (C-440/14 P)

78According to the Court’s case-law, a regulation providing for restrictive measures must be interpreted in the light not only of the decision adopted in the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy referred to in Article 215(2) TFEU, but also of the historical context in which the provisions were adopted by the European Union, that regulation being one such provision (see, to that effect, judgment in Council v Manufacturing Support & Procurement Kala Naft, C‑348/12 P, EU:C:2013:776, paragraph 75, and order in Georgias and Others v Council and Commission, C‑545/14 P, EU:C:2015:791, point 33). The same applies to a decision adopted in the area of the common foreign and security policy, which must be interpreted taking into account the context in which it is adopted.