Brussels, 31/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - Regulation 1286/2009 putting in place specific restrictive measures against persons and entities associated with Al-Qaida and the Taliban is valid. The Council correctly considered it to fall within the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and not, as the European Parliament (EP) would prefer, the area of freedom, security and justice, suggests Advocate General Yves Bot in his opinion delivered on Tuesday 31 January in case C-130/11.
This Council...