Order of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 21 May 2015 —
APRAM v Commission

(Case T‑403/13)

Action for annulment — Cohesion Fund — Regulation (EU) No 1164/94 — Reduction of financial assistance — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility

1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria — Decision of the Commission, addressed to a Member State, withdrawing financial assistance from the Cohesion Fund — Decision not requiring recovery of the sums paid from the final beneficiaries — No discretion of the Member State concerned as to recovery of the said amount arising from national law — Action brought by the entity responsible for implementing the project concerned — Not directly concerned — Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 35, 36, 40-43, 48-51, 68)

2.                     European Union — Judicial review of the legality of the acts of the institutions — Acts requiring national application measures — Natural or legal persons able to resort to a request for a preliminary ruling for an assessment of validity — Obligation on Member States to establish the necessary remedies to ensure effective judicial protection (Art. 4(3) TEU; Arts 263, fourth para., TFEU and 267 TFEU) (see paras 65, 67)

Re:

ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2013) 1870, of 27 March 2013, which reduces the contribution from the Cohesion Fund to the project ‘Development of Port infrastructures of the Autonomous Region of Madeira — Port of Caniçal’, Madeira, Portugal.

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. APRAM — Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira, SA is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.