The funds of the lTTE will remain frozen in the European Union countries despite the recent judgement by the 28-member bloc’s top court to remove the Sri lankan Tamil rebels from its terror list, the grouping has said. In 2006, the EU banned the lTTE as a terrorist organisation and has maintained the lTTE on its list. In 2014, the General Court annulled the restrictive measures concerning the lTTE due to procedural shortcomings. The 2014 judgement was appealed by the Council of the European Union at the European Court of Justice.