Order — ECLI:EU:T:2004:32
Date: 2004-02-04
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Second Chamber, Extended Composition
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: State aids;Competition
Concepts: Intervention
Procedure: Action for annulment;Application to intervene - unfounded
Origin: Netherlands

Summary of the Order 
Procedure — Intervention — Conditions for admissibility — interest in the result of the 
case — Indirect interest by reason of similarities between the contested decision which 
forms part of a bundle of individual decisions addressed to the prospective intervener — 
Inadmissibility 
(Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 40, second para., and 53, first para.) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-14/00 
Under the second paragraph of Article 40 
of the Statute of the Court of Justice, 
which, pursuant to the first paragraph of 
Article 53 of that statute, is applicable to 
the procedure before the Court of First 
Instance, the concept of an interest in the 
result of the case must be defined in the 
light of the precise subject-matter of the 
dispute and be understood as meaning a 
direct, existing interest in the ruling on the 
forms of order sought and not as an interest 
in relation to the pleas in law and argu­
ments put forward. The expression 'result' 
is to be understood as meaning the oper­
ative part of the final judgment which the 
parties ask the Court to deliver. 
Moreover, it is necessary to distinguish 
between prospective interveners establish­
ing a direct interest in the ruling on the 
specific act whose annulment is sought and 
those who can establish only an indirect 
interest in the result of the case by reason of 
similarities between their situation and that 
of one of the parties. 
Thus, in the case of a decision consisting of 
a bundle of individual decisions, it does not 
suffice to be one of the addressees of that 
decision, or to be directly and individually 
concerned by it to show a direct interest in 
the result of a case to which another 
addressee of that same decision or another 
person directly and individually concerned 
by that decision is a party, or, accordingly 
to be granted leave to intervene in that case. 
Where a decision consisting of a bundle of 
individual decisions is partially annulled, 
Article 233 EC does not imply that the 
Commission must, at the request of those 
concerned, re-examine the legality of that 
decision in so far as it individually concerns 
other persons besides the applicant. 
(see paras 10-22) 
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