… The fourth plea, alleging infringement of the rights of the defence
27 By his fourth plea, which relates to the maintaining acts only, the applicant submits that the Council infringed his right to sound administration, his right to an effective remedy and his rights of defence, as enshrined in
Articles
41,
47
and 48, respectively, of the
Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the
Charter
’), on the ground, first of all, that he has not been given serious and credible evidence or concrete …
… ) and, on 15 October 2012, on the basis of
Article
29 TEU, Decision 2012/642/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Belarus (OJ 2012 L 285, p. 1).
5 The criterion applied in order to adopt the restrictive measures against the applicant (‘the general criterion at issue’) is laid down, first, in
Article
3(1)(b) and, second, in
Article
4(1)(b) of Decision 2012/642, as well as in
Article
2(5) of Regulation No 765/2006, in the versions thereof in force at the time when the contested acts were adopted …
… Next, the detailed submissions set out in his application, his reply and the letters of 30 November 2021 and 11 February 2022, were not, in the applicant’s view, the subject of any careful or
impartial
examination on the part of the Council. …