Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 23 September 2014 — Jaczewski v Commission

(Case T‑178/13)

Action for annulment — Agriculture — Interest in bringing proceedings — Regulatory act entailing implementing measures — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility

1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Meaning of ‘regulatory act’ in Article 263, fourth paragraph, TFEU — Any act of general scope for legislative measures — Commission decision authorising the grant of complementary direct national payments — Included (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 19-23)

2.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Regulatory act not entailing implementing measures within the meaning of Article 263, fourth paragraph, TFEU — Concept — Commission decision authorising the grant of complementary direct national payments — Decision providing, in abstract terms, for a precise method of calculation in order to effect a reduction of complementary direct payments in the case of a total amount of direct payments higher than a certain amount — Not included (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 24-26)

3.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission decision authorising the grant of complementary direct national payments — Application of the decision presupposing the actual introduction of a request by farmers seeking to obtain complementary national payments — Not individually affected — Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 28-34)

Re:

APPLICATION for partial annulment of Commission Implementing Decision C(2012) 5049 final of 24 July 2012 approving the grant of complementary national direct payments in Poland for 2012.

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. Mr Grzegorz Jaczewski is ordered to pay the costs.