ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
7 May 2007(*)
(Legal aid)
In Case T-7/07 AJ,
Marco Filipe Neves da Silva, residing in Brega (Portugal),
applicant,
v
Commission of the European Communities,
defendant,
APPLICATION for legal aid pursuant to Article 95 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance,
THE PRESIDENT
OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
makes the following
Order
1 By letter lodged at the Registry of the Court of First Instance on 3 January 2007, Mr Neves de Silva applied for legal aid in order to bring an action against the Commission of the European Communities for failure to act upon a complaint from the applicant against an alleged violation by an unnamed Member State’s authorities of Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 establishing common rules in the field of civil aviation security (OJ 2002 L 355, p. 1) as amended by Regulation (EC) No 849/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 (OJ 2004 L 158, p. 1).
2 From the application for legal aid it is neither apparent which Member State’s authorities have allegedly violated Regulation No 2320/2002 as amended, nor in what the alleged violation consists.
3 Moreover, it is not apparent from the application for legal aid as to whether the applicant wanted the Commission to engage infringement proceedings against the Member State in question for not having adopted and implemented a civil aviation security programme in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation No 2320/2002, or if the considered application sought to imply that the Commission had failed to conduct inspections in accordance with Article 7 of the aforementioned regulation.
4 Under Article 94(3) of the Rules of Procedure, legal aid is to be refused if the action in respect of which the application is made appears to be manifestly inadmissible or manifestly unfounded.
5 Under Article 96(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the Court of First Instance invites, before giving its decision on an application for legal aid, the other party to submit its written observations unless it is already apparent from the information produced that the conditions laid down in Article 94(3) have been satisfied.
6 In the present case, the possible measures to be taken by the Commission would neither be addressed to the applicant, nor would they concern him directly or individually.
7 As the action in respect of which the application is made is therefore manifestly inadmissible, it follows that the application for legal aid must be rejected without it being necessary to hear the other party concerned.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
hereby orders:
The application for legal aid in Case T-7/07 AJ is rejected.
Luxembourg, 7 May 2007.