Judgment_paragraph 78 · National Iranian Tanker Company v Council of the European Union (C-600/16 P)

78The General Court’s interpretation of the listing criterion relating to ‘support for the Government of Iran’ in the present case, in accordance with the case-law cited in paragraphs 67 to 69 above, covers activities that are capable of encouraging nuclear proliferation by providing the Government of Iran with resources or facilities of a material, financial or logistical nature which allow it to pursue nuclear proliferation, without any activity amounting to such support, but only activities which, by their quantitative or qualitative importance, contribute to the pursuit of nuclear proliferation activities. In those circumstances, it does not appear that that criterion, as interpreted by the General Court in the present case, is inappropriate and goes beyond the limits of what is necessary to achieve that objective.