62019TO0822_INF
Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 4 May 2021 –Asoliva and Anierac v Commission
(Case T‑822/19)
(Action for annulment – Agriculture – Classification into one of three categories of virgin olive oil – Implementing measures – Lack of individual concern – Inadmissibility)
1.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Regulatory acts entailing implementing measures – Concept – Criteria for assessment
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)
(see paras 26-35)
2.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Regulatory acts entailing implementing measures – Concept – Commission Regulation concerning the verification, by approved panels, of the classification of an olive oil used by the undertaking concerned – Included
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Commission Regulation No 2568/91, as amended by Regulation No 2019/1604, Art. 2(2), third subpara.)
(see paras 39, 43, 44, 49)
3.
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Individual concern – Criteria – Commission Regulation concerning the verification, by approved panels, of the classification of an olive oil used by the undertaking concerned – Action by associations representing olive oil packaging and export undertakings – Not individually concerned – Inadmissibility
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Commission Regulation No 2568/91, as amended by Regulation No 2019/1604, Art. 2(2), third subpara.)
(see paras 54-56, 58, 59, 61, 63)
Re:
Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Article 1(1)(b) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1604 of 27 September 2019 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 on the characteristics of olive oil and olive-residue oil and on the relevant methods of analysis (OJ 2019 L 250, p. 14).
Operative part
1.
The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
2.
Asociación Española de la Industria y Comercio Exportador de Aceite de Oliva (Asoliva) and Asociación Nacional de Industriales Envasadores y Refinadores de Aceites Comestibles (Anierac) shall pay the costs.