Language of document : ECLI:EU:T:2008:189





Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 11 June 2008 – European Association of Im- and Exporters of Birds and live Animals and Others v Commission

(Case T-209/06)

Action for annulment – Admissibility – Fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC – Natural and legal persons – Associations – Decision 2006/522/EC – Individual concern – Animal health – Protection measures in relation to avian influenza

1.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision concerning protection measures against avian influenza affecting imports into the Community of birds from non-member countries (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Commission Decision 2006/522) (see paras 28-34)

2.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision concerning protection measures against avian influenza affecting imports into the Community of birds from non-member countries (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Commission Decision 2006/522) (see para. 36)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2006/522/EC of 25 July 2006 amending Decisions 2005/759/EC and 2005/760/EC as regards certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza and movements of certain live birds into the Community (OJ 2006 L 205, p. 28).

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders the applicants to pay the costs, including those relating to the application for interim measures.