The European Union approved new rules governing the sharing of confidential evidence with judges in sanctions cases on February 10.  The new rules were adopted in response to a series of successful challenges to E.U. sanctions mounted by blacklisted entities in Iran, Syria, and other countries.  These challenges had exploited the reluctance of some member-states to share intelligence information with courts because, under the old rules, the information had to be shared with opposing counsel.  The new rules, which govern the E.U.'s General Court, create a set of exceptions to the evidence sharing requirement.