CELEX: 62007TO0403
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-03 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 3 November 2008. # Union nationale de l’apiculture française and Others v Commission of the European Communities. # Action for annulment - Directive 91/414/EEC - Plant protection products - Directive 2007/52/EC - Not individually concerned - Inadmissibility. # Case T-403/07.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 3 November 2008 – Union nationale de l’apiculture française and Others
            v Commission
      (Case T-403/07)
      Action for annulment – Directive 91/414/EEC – Plant protection products – Directive 2007/52/EC – Not individually concerned – Inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them (Art. 230, fourth para.,
            EC; Council Directive No 91/414; Commission Directive No 2007/52) (see paras 39-52)
      2.                     European Communities – Judicial review of the legality of the acts of the institutions – Measures of general scope – Need
            for natural or legal persons to have recourse to a plea of illegality or a reference for a preliminary ruling on validity
            (Arts 230, fourth para., EC, 234 EC and 241 EC) (see paras 53-55)
      3.                     Preliminary rulings – Assessment of validity – Declaration of invalidity of a Community measure – Effects (Arts 233 EC and
            234 EC) (see para 56)
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Directive 2007/52/EC of 16 August 2007 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include
                  ethoprophos, pirimiphos-methyl and fipronil as active substances (OJ 2007 L 214, p. 3).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders that there is no need to rule on the applications to intervene;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Union nationale de l’apiculture française, Deutscher Berufs- und Erwerbsimkerbund eV, Unione nazionale associazioni
                     apicoltori italiani and Asociación Galega de Apicultura to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the Commission.