CELEX: 62008TO0313
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber) of 30 November 2009. # Veromar di Tudisco Alfio & Salvatore Snc and Others v Commission of the European Communities. # Application for annulment - Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 - Recovery of bluefin tuna stock - Fixing the TAC for 2008 - Measure of general application - Lack of individual concern - Inadmissibility. # Joined cases T-313/08 to T-318/08 and T-320/08 to T-328/08.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber) of 30 November 2009 – Veromar di Tudisco Alfio & Salvatore and Others
            v Commission
      (Joined Cases T-313/08 to T-318/08 and T-320/08 to T-328/08)
      Application for annulment – Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 – Recovery of bluefin tuna stock – Fixing the TAC for 2008 – Measure of general application – Lack of individual concern – Inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Regulation establishing
            emergency measures to restrict red tuna fishing – Measure of general scope – Action by owners of vessels authorised to fish
            for red tuna – Applicants not individually concerned – Inadmissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Commission Regulation
            No 530/2008) (see paras 36-41, 45-48)
      2.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Interpretation, contrary
            to law, of the requirement of being individually concerned – Not permissible (Arts 230, fourth para., EC, 234 EC and 241 EC)
            (see para. 49)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 of 12 June 2008 establishing emergency measures as regards
                  purse seiners fishing for bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean, east of longitude 45° W, and in the Mediterranean Sea (OJ 2008
                  L 155, p. 9).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The actions are dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	The applicants, Veromar di Tudisco Alfio & Salvatore Snc and the 16 other applicants whose names appear in the annex, shall
                     bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the Commission of the European Communities.