Order — ECLI:EU:T:2025:345
Date: 2025-03-26
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Financial provisions;Approximation of laws
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible;Application to intervene - decision unnecessary

Order of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Messiaen and Ballegeer v Parliament and Council (Case T-451/24) 1 (Action for annulment – Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing – Lack of individual concern – Inadmissibility) Language of the proceedings: Dutch Parties Applicants: Robin Messiaen, Ferenc Ballegeer (represented by : P. Verhaeghe, lawyer) Defendants: European Parliament (represented by : I. Terwinghe, E. Paladini and C. Burgos, agents), Council of the European Union (represented by : I. Gurov, K. Pleśniak and S. Emmerechts, acting as Agents) Re: By their action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of Article 3(3)(a) and (b), Article 19(6)(b), Article 20(1) and (2), Article 21(2) and (3), Article 24(4) and Article 70(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (OJ L, 2024/1624) and, as a result, the inapplicability of the obligations on lawyers established by Articles 21, 24 and Article 69(1) and (2) of the contested regulation. Operative part of the order The action is dismissed as being inadmissible. There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application to intervene by the European Commission. R. Messiaen and F. Ballegeer are to bear their own costs and to pay those of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union. The European Commission is to bear its own costs relating to the qpplication to intervene. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2024/6442, 4.11.2024.