CELEX: 62008TO0319
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 February 2012.#Salvatore Grasso v European Commission.#Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 — Recovery plan for bluefin tuna — Setting of TACs for 2008 — Act of general application — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissible.#Case T‑319/08.

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 February 2012 — Grasso v Commission(Case T‑319/08)
      Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 530/2008 — Recovery plan for bluefin tuna — Setting of 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, 25‑27)
      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. 29)
      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 action is dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	Each party is ordered to bear its own costs.