CELEX: 62011TO0203
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 18 June 2012. # Transports Schiocchet - Excursions v Council of the European Union and European Commission. # Non-contractual liability - Coach and bus services between Member States - Regulation (EEC) No 684/92 - Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals - Lack - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law. # Case T-203/11.

Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 18 June 2012 —
      Transports Schiocchet — Excursions v Council and Commission
      
      (Case T-203/11)
      Non-contractual liability — Coach and bus services between Member States — Regulation (EEC) No 684/92 — Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals — None — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law
      1.                     Non-contractual liability — Conditions — Unlawfulness — Damage — Causal link — One of the conditions not satisfied — Claim
            for compensation dismissed in its entirety (Art. 340, second para., TFEU) (see para. 27)
      2.                     Non-contractual liability — Conditions — Legislative measure involving choices of economic policy — Sufficiently serious breach
            of a higher rule of law conferring rights on individuals — Requirement of a clear and serious breach of the limits of the
            wide discretion of the EU legislature (Art. 340, second para; TFEU) (see para. 28)
      3.                     Non-contractual liability — Conditions — Omissions of EU institutions — Requirement that a legal duty to act be disregarded
            (Art. 340, second para., TFEU) (see paras 37-40)
      4.                     Non-contractual liability — Conditions — Legislative measure involving choices of economic policy — Sufficiently serious breach
            of a higher rule of law conferring rights on individuals — Requirement of a clear and serious breach of the limits of the
            wide discretion of the EU legislature — Late submission by the Commission of a legislative proposal in the area concerned —
            No liability (Art. 340, second para., TFEU) (see paras 41, 42)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for compensation for the damage purportedly suffered by the applicant by reason of the application of the system
                  laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 684/92 of 16 March 1992 on common rules for the international carriage of passengers
                  by coach and bus (OJ 1992 L 74, p. 1).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The action is dismissed as manifestly lacking any foundation in law.
               
            
         
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                  	Transports Schiocchet — Excursions is ordered to pay the costs.