CELEX: 62008TO0330
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 February 2012.#Ligny Pesca di Guaiana Francesco e C. Snc and Others v European Commission.#Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 — Recovery plan for bluefin tuna — Setting TACs for 2008 — Act of general application — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissible.#Case T‑330/08.

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 February 2012 — Ligny Pesca di Guaiana Francesco and Others v Commission(Case T‑330/08)
      Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 — Recovery plan for bluefin tuna — Setting TACs for 2008 — Act of general application — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissible
      1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Not possible to base
            an action brought before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on Article 263, fourth para., TFEU (Art. 230, fourth para.,
            EC; Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see para. 16)
      2.                     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 18‑23, 27‑30)
      3.                     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 (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Charter of Fundamental
            Rights of the European Union, Art. 47) (see para. 32)
      4.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Regulation establishing
            emergency measures to restrict red tuna fishing — Action by a trade association of all vessel owners active in the fishing
            and fisheries processing and marketing industry — Members of the association not themselves having locus standi –Inadmissibility
            (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Commission Regulation No 530/2008) (see paras 34, 35)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Article 1 and Article 3(1) 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 action is dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	Ligny Pesca di Guaiana Francesco e C. Snc and the six other applicants whose names appear in the annex are to bear their own
                     costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.