Case T‑429/13

(publication by extracts)

Bayer CropScience AG

v

European Commission

(Intervention — Interest in the result of the case — Representative associations whose object is the protection of their members’ interests — Confidentiality)

Summary — Order of the General Court (First Chamber), 21 October 2014

1.      Judicial proceedings — Intervention — Persons having an interest — Representative association having as its object the protection of its members — Admissibility in cases raising questions of principle liable to affect those members — Conditions — Broad interpretation

(Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 40, second para., and 53, first para.)

2.      Judicial proceedings — Intervention — Persons having an interest — Member of a representative association, authorised to intervene — Admissibility — Condition — Interest in the result of the case different from that of the association

(Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 40, second para., and 53, first para.)

1.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 22, 23, 69)

2.      If additional applications for leave to intervene having the same objective on the part of their members are granted, that presupposes that those members have demonstrated that they have an interest in the outcome of the dispute that is different from the interests of the associations granted leave to intervene of which they are members.

(see para. 66)