62021TO0527(01)_INF
Order of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 April 2022 –Abenante and Others v Parliament and Council
(Case T‑527/21)
(Action for annulment – Regulation (EU) 2021/953 – EU Digital COVID Certificate – Freedom of movement for persons – Restrictions – No legal interest in bringing proceedings – No direct concern – No individual concern – Inadmissibility)
1.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Locus standi – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate – Regulation itself not providing for any obligation for the applicants to provide proof of vaccination, test or recovery – Applicants not directly affected – Inadmissibility
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2021/953)
(see paragraphs 43-51)
2.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Locus standi – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate – Regulation not affecting the applicants by reason of certain attributes which are peculiar to them or by reason of circumstances in which they are differentiated from all other persons not intending to get themselves vaccinated or submit to a Covid test – Applicants not individually concerned – Inadmissibility
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2021/953)
(see paragraphs 52-57)
Operative part
1.
The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
2.
There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the European Commission’s application to intervene.
3.
Ms Stefania Abenante and the other applicants whose names are set out in the annex shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, including those relating to the interlocutory proceedings before the Court.
4.
The Commission shall bear its own costs relating to the application to intervene.