CELEX: 62016TB0022
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-22/16: Order of the General Court of 9 March 2017 — Comprojecto-Projectos e Construções and Gomes de Azevedo v ECB (Action for failure to act, for annulment and for damages — Economic and monetary policy — Supervision of credit institutions — Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering — Corrective measures — No invitation to act — Lack of precision in the application — Act not open to challenge — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

8.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 144/44
            
         Order of the General Court of 9 March 2017 — Comprojecto-Projectos e Construções and Gomes de Azevedo v ECB
   (Case T-22/16) (1)
   
   ((Action for failure to act, for annulment and for damages - Economic and monetary policy - Supervision of credit institutions - Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering - Corrective measures - No invitation to act - Lack of precision in the application - Act not open to challenge - Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law))
   (2017/C 144/60)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Comprojecto-Projectos e Construções, Lda (Lisbon, Portugal), Julião Maria Gomes de Azevedo (Lisbon), Paulo Eduardo Matos Gomes de Azevedo (Lisbon), Isabel Maria Matos Gomes de Azevedo (Lisbon) (represented by: M. Ribeiro, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: A. Karpf, P. Ferreira Jorge and K. Kaiser, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   First, an application based on Article 265 TFEU and seeking a declaration that the ECB illegally failed to take action against Portuguese credit institutions within the context of the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering, secondly, an application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the act by which the ECB returned to the applicants the invitation to act which they had sent to it, and, thirdly, an application based on Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the damage allegedly sustained by the applicants as a result of that failure to act.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The action is dismissed.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Comprojecto — Projectos e Construções, Lda, Julião Maria Gomes de Azevedo, Paulo Eduardo Matos Gomes de Azevedo and Isabel Maria Matos Gomes de Azevedo shall pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106, 21.3.2016.