55In the present case, a significant period of time elapsed between the adoption in 2001 of the UK decisions which served as the basis for the original entry of the LTTE on the list at issue, the listing itself, which occurred in 2006, and the adoption of the acts at issue in the period from 2011 to 2014. In addition, as the Council mentioned in the statements of reasons relating to the acts at issue, the LTTE incurred a military defeat, announced by the Sri Lankan Government in May 2009, which significantly weakened that organisation. The Council was therefore obliged to base the retention of the LTTE on that list on more recent material demonstrating that there was still a risk that the LTTE were involved in terrorist activities. Consequently, contrary to what is claimed by the Council, the General Court did not err in law in considering, at least implicitly, that the UK decisions did not in themselves constitute a sufficient basis for the acts at issue.
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