62018TJ0707_INF
Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 29 April 2020 –Tilly-Sabco v Council and Commission
(Case T‑707/18)
(Agriculture – Export refunds – Poultrymeat – Regulation (EU) 2018/1277 adopted following the annulment of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 689/2013 by a judgment of the Court of Justice – Competence of the author of the act – Abuse of process – Obligation to state reasons – Non-contractual liability – Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals – Damage)
1.
Action for annulment – Judgment annulling a measure – Effects – Obligation to implement – Scope – Both the operative part and the grounds of the judgment to be taken into account – Competent institution – Repeal of the legal basis enabling a new act to be adopted by the same institution to replace the act annulled – No possibility to adopt on the basis of Article 266 TFEU
(Art. 13(2) TEU; Art. 266 TFEU)
(see paras 42-44, 66, 70)
2.
Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Export refunds – Fixing of amounts – Power of the Council – Legal basis – Article 43(3) TFEU
(Art. 43(3) TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1308/2013, Arts 196(1)(a)(viii) and 198(2))
(see paras 47, 57-62, 67, 81)
3.
Acts of the institutions – Act amending an earlier provision – General principles of law – Rule of equivalence of form – No infringement
(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1308/2013; Council Regulation No 1234/2007; Commission Regulation No 689/2013)
(see paras 74-77)
4.
Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Export refunds – Fixing of amounts – Fixing of the amount at zero for the first time in respect of the products concerned – Whether permissible
(Art. 43(3) TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1308/2013, Art. 196(3); Council Regulation 2018/1277, Art. 1(1))
(see paras 85, 86)
5.
Actions for damages – Application for damages linked to an application for annulment – Dismissal of claim for annulment leading to dismissal of the claim for compensation
(Arts 263 and 340 TFEU)
(see para. 115)
6.
Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals – Rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals – Concept – Procedural rule intended to allow the governments of the Member States to control the Commission’s exercise of its implementing powers – Not included
(Art. 340, second para. TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 182/2011, Art. 3(3))
(see paras 117-121)
Re:
First, application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1277 of 18 September 2018 on fixing the export refunds on poultrymeat (OJ 2018 L 239, p. 1), and, second, application based on Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of fixing those export refunds at zero for the period 19 July to 31 December 2013.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Tilly-Sabco to pay the costs.