Order — ECLI:EU:C:1998:362
Date: 1998-07-14
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Energy
Concepts: General
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: France

Summary of the O r d e r 
Procedure — Actions brought by a natural or legal person against other natural or legal persons 
or f or annulment of a purely national decision — Lack of jurisdiction of the Community judica­
ture — Inadmissible 
(EC Treaty, Arts 3b and 4) 
Under Articles 3b and 4 of the Treaty, the 
Court, like the other institutions of the 
Community, has jurisdiction to act only 
within the limits of the powers conferred 
upon it by the Treaty. Neither the jurisdic­
tion to take cognisance of actions brought by 
natural or legal persons against other natural 
or legal persons, nor the jurisdiction to take 
cognisance of actions for annulment of 
purely national decisions falls within those 
powers. Accordingly, such actions are mani­
festly inadmissible. 
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