Order — ECLI:EU:T:1997:136
Date: 1997-09-26
Language of the case: Italian
Court formation: President of the Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Research and technological development
Concepts: Statement of reasons;Application for interim measures: suspension of operation of the contested measure and other interim measures
Procedure: Action for annulment;Application for interim measures - unfounded
Origin: Italy

Summary of the Judgment 
Actions for annulment — Interest in bringing an action — Action against a decision 
establishing the list of project proposals eligible for a Community contribution under a 
specific programine of research, space technological development and demonstration in 
the field of marine science and technology (MAST III Programme) — Exclusion of the 
applicants' proposal — Absence or disappearance of an interest in bringing an action — 
No need to adjudicate 
(EC Treaty, Art. 173 (now, after amendment, Art. 230 EC); Council Decision 94/804) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-183/97 
There is no need to adjudicate on an action 
for annulment brought against a Commis­
sion decision establishing the list of project 
proposals eligible for a Community con­
tribution under a specific programme of 
research, space technological development 
and demonstration in the field of marine 
science and technology (MAST III Pro­
gramme), established by Decision 94/804, 
in so far as it entails the exclusion of the 
applicants' proposal from the reserve list. 
The applicants do not have an interest in 
bringing an action concerning the defence 
of their scientific prestige, given that, in the 
context of the procedure for choosing the 
projects eligible for financing, their own 
scientific ability was not taken into con­
sideration either directly or indirectly when 
their proposal was excluded from the 
reserve list. 
As regards the applicants' interest in the 
implementation of their proposal, given 
that there are no more funds available to 
finance the reserve list concerned, and that 
that lack of funds is not the result of an 
infringement of the rules applicable, they 
have no further interest in the annulment of 
the contested decision in so far as it entails 
the exclusion of that proposal from the 
reserve list. 
(see paras 40, 53-54) 
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