Order — ECLI:EU:C:1997:307
Date: 1997-06-17
Language of the case: English
Court formation: President of the Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (1951)
Subject matter: Fuels;Competition;ECSC matters;Prices;Agreements and concentrations
Concepts: Ancillary procedures and applications
Procedure: Application to intervene;Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded
Origin: United Kingdom

Summary of the O r d e r 
Procedure — Intervention — Persons having an interest — Assessment by the Community judi­
cature of the interest in intervening 
(ECSC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 34; EC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 37; EAEC 
Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 38) 
For the purposes of granting leave to inter­
vene, the Community judicature ascertains 
whether those seeking it are directly affected 
by the contested act and whether their inter­
est in the result of the case is established. 
Similarly, it is necessary to establish a direct, 
existing interest in the grant by the Court of 
the order as sought and not an interest in 
relation to the pleas in law put forward. The 
interest necessary in this respect must relate 
not merely to abstract legal arguments but to 
the actual form of order sought by a party to 
the main action. 
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