85In addition, in paragraph 132, the General Court pointed out that those restrictions concerned only a part of NITC’s assets and that Decision 2010/413 and Regulation No 267/2012 made provision for certain exceptions. Those acts provide for possibilities to release funds enabling NITC to meet certain expenses, in particular those considered essential, or to honour specific commercial contracts. As regards the harm to its reputation, the General Court noted that the Council did not allege that NITC itself was involved in nuclear proliferation. It concluded from this that NITC was not personally associated with behaviour posing a risk to international peace and security and that the degree of mistrust towards it was therefore lower.
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