Order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 27 March 2012 — Connefroy and Others v Commission

(Case T‑327/09)

Action for annulment — State aid — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility

1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission decision prohibiting a sectoral aid scheme — Action by the actual beneficiaries of aid granted under that scheme and having to be repaid — Admissibility — Conditions (Art. 230(4) EC) (see paras 21-23)

2.                     Procedure — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Identification of the subject matter of the dispute — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Imprecision as to the amount, date and subject matter of the measures which benefited the applicants — Inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 26, 31, 33)

Re:

ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision 2009/402/EC of 28 January 2009 on the ‘contingency plans’ in the fruit and vegetable sector implemented by France (OJ 2009 L 127, p. 11).

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. Philippe Connefroy and Jean‑Guy Gueguen and EARL de Cavagnan are ordered to pay, in addition to their own costs, the costs incurred by the European Commission.