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Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 5 November 2024 –Apc Europe and Others v Commission
(Case T‑1194/23)
(Action for annulment – Health policy – Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 – Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – Prohibition on the use of blood and blood products of bovine origin in the diet of aquaculture animals – Refusal to initiate a review of the prohibition – Act not open to challenge – Inadmissibility)
1.
Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Measures producing binding legal effects – Decision to refuse to withdraw or amend a measure which is not itself challengeable by such an action – Not included
(Art. 263, first para., TFEU)
(see paragraphs 20, 21, 31)
2.
Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept –Measures producing binding legal effects – Provision conferring on certain persons the right to request the initiation of a procedure or granting them procedural safeguards in such a procedure – Decision to refuse to initiate such a procedure – Included
(Art. 263, first para., TFEU)
(see paragraph 22)
Operative part
1.
The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
2.
Apc Europe SL and the other applicants whose names are included in the annex shall, in addition to bearing their own costs, pay those incurred by the European Commission.