62023CJ0586_SUM
Case C‑586/23 P
Giovanni Frajese
v
European Commission
Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 30 January 2025
(Appeal – Public health – Medicinal products for human use – Marketing authorisation – Spikevax – Comirnaty – Action for annulment – Independence and impartiality of the Courts of the European Union – Failure to comply with procedural rules – Failure to give adequate reasons, and contradictory reasoning – Legal interest in bringing proceedings – Locus standi – Fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU – Right to effective judicial protection)
Member States – Obligations – Provision of remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection – Observance of the principle of judicial independence – Right to an independent and impartial tribunal previously established by law – Requirement of impartiality – Scope
(Arts 2 and 19(1), second para_. TEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Arts 47 and 48)
(see paragraphs 14-17)
Actions for annulment – Legal interest in bringing proceedings – Action brought by an applicant who is not an addressee of the contested act – Admissibility – Condition – Measure producing binding legal effects vis-à-vis the applicant – Commission decision granting a conditional marketing authorisation for a COVID-19 vaccine – Measure not bringing about a change in the applicant’s legal position – No legal interest in bringing proceedings
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)
(see paragraphs 47-52)
Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Acts of direct and individual concern to them – Direct concern – Criteria – Commission decision granting a marketing authorisation for a COVID-19 vaccine – Applicant not directly affected
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)
(see paragraphs 62-69)
See the text of the decision.