Order — ECLI:EU:T:2001:205
Date: 2001-09-11
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;State aids;Competition
Concepts: Applications by natural or legal persons
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Greece

Summary of the Order 
Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual 
concern to them — Council decision addressed to a Member State declaring aid 
consisting of the assumption by that Member State of debts owed by a number of 
cooperatives and agricultural businesses to a bank to be compatible with the common 
market — Action brought by persons who are engaged in vocational training in an 
agricultural region and have taken out a loan with that bank — Inadmissible 
(EC Treaty, Art. 173, fourth para (now, after amendment, Art. 230, fourth para., EC)) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-270/99 
Applicants who merely claim that they are 
engaged in vocational training in an agri­
cultural region, thus contributing to its 
economic and cultural development, and 
that as a result of that activity they took out 
a loan from a bank which they have been 
unable to repay cannot claim to be indivi­
dually concerned by a Council decision 
addressed to a Member State declaring aid 
consisting of the assumption by that Mem­
ber State of debts owed by a number of 
cooperatives and agricultural businesses to 
a bank in that Member State to be compa­
tible with the common market. Those 
circumstances alone are inadequate to 
differentiate the applicants from any other 
insolvent debtor of the bank engaged in an 
economic activity in an agricultural area of 
that State whose name does not appear on 
the list of recipients of the aid in question. 
(see paras 27-28) 
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