40In those circumstances, it must be held that the obligation on the Council to provide, in the event of a challenge, information or evidence substantiating the reasons for the adoption of restrictive measures against a natural or legal person was already apparent, at the time when the provisions at issue were adopted, from well-established case-law of the Court. Consequently, the General Court was fully entitled to find, notably in paragraphs 68 and 69 of the judgment under appeal, that the breach of that obligation over a period of almost three years constituted a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals, regardless of whether the rights at issue in the present case consist, in the words of paragraph 58 of that judgment, of the right not to have restrictive measures imposed contrary to the substantive conditions for the imposition of such measures, or arise, as referred to in paragraph 60 of that judgment, from the requirements of effective judicial protection.
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