Order — ECLI:EU:T:2001:123
Date: 2001-04-24
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Interest in bringing proceedings;Effect of the outcome of the action for annulment
Procedure: Staff cases - inadmissible;Action for damages - unfounded

SUMMARY - CASE T-172/00 
Summary 
1. Officials - Actions - Interest in bringing proceedings - None 
(Staff Regulations, Art. 91) 
2. Officials - Non-contractual liability - Conditions - Fault on the part of the 
administration — Damage — Causal link 
1. An official has no further legal interest in bringing an action for annulment 
where, at the time when the action is brought, he has already achieved the objective 
which prompted him to initiate the pre-litigation procedure. 
(see para. 27) 
2. The Community incurs non-contractual liability only if a number of conditions 
are satisfied as regards the illegality of the allegedly wrongful act committed by the 
institutions, the actual harm suffered and the existence of a causal link between the 
act and the damage alleged to have been suffered. Only harm actually and definitely 
suffered can give rise to compensation. 
(see paras 34, 38) 
See: T-205/96 Lieber v Parliament [1998] ECR-SC I-A-231 and II-723, para. 67; 
C-257/98 P Lucaccioniv Commission [1999] ECR I-5251, para. 11 
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