CELEX: 62008TO0045
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 14 November 2008. # Transportes Evaristo Molina, SA v Commission of the European Communities. # Action for annulment - Time-limit for instituting proceedings - Starting point - Publication in the Official Journal - Alleged lack of locus standi at the date of publication - Inadmissibility. # Case T-45/08.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 14 November 2008 – Transportes Evaristo Molina v Commission
      (Case T-45/08)
      Action for annulment – Time-limit for instituting proceedings – Starting point – Publication in the Official Journal – Alleged lack of locus standi at the date of publication – Inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Time-limits – Point from which time starts to run – Date of publication of the measure in question
            (Art. 230, fifth para., EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 102(1)) (see paras 29-30)
      2.                     Procedure – Time-limit for instituting proceedings – Claim barred by lapse of time – Unforeseeable circumstances or force
            majeure (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 45, second para.) (see para. 30)
      3.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Locus standi – Assessment by the Community judicative alone (Art. 230 EC)
            (see para. 32)
      Re: 
      
         
               ANNULMENT of Commission Decision 2006/446/EC of 12 April 2006, relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/B-1/38.348
                  – Repsol CPP) (summary published in OJ 2006 L 176, p. 104) making binding the undertakings made by Repsol CPP, adopted in
                  accordance with Article 9 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition
                  laid down in Articles 81 [EC] and 82 [EC] (OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders it not necessary to adjudicate on the application to intervene made by Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos,
                     SA;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Transportes Evaristo Molina, SA to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the Commission.