Order;Information — ECLI:EU:T:2022:670
Date: 2022-10-20
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Finland

Order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 October 2022 – Callaway v Commission (Case T-653/21) (Action for annulment – Common agricultural policy – Common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species – Plant varieties – Producer of the hemp variety Finola – Areas cultivated in Poland – Hemp varieties eligible for financial support under the common agricultural policy – Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content – Authorisation given to Poland to prohibit the marketing of the Finola variety in its territory – Not directly concerned – Inadmissibility) Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Direct concern – Criteria – Authorisation given to a Member State to prohibit the marketing of the hemp variety Finola on its territory – Action brought by a seed producer holding exclusive Community plant variety rights for this variety – Lack of direct concern – Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paragraphs 18, 19, 25) Operative part 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. There is no need to adjudicate on the applications for leave to intervene of the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the Republic of Poland. 3. James C. Callaway shall bear his own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission. 4. The Council, the Parliament and the Republic of Poland shall bear their own costs in relation to the applications for leave to intervene.