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Actions for annulment ° Natural or legal persons ° Measures of direct and individual concern to them ° Regulation amending the detailed rules for applying aid measures for nuts and locust beans

(EEC Treaty, Art. 173, second para.; Commission Regulation No 1304/91, Art. 1)

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The possibility of determining more or less precisely the number or even the identity of the persons to whom a measure applies by no means implies that it must be regarded as being of individual concern to them within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 173 of the Treaty as long as it is established that such application takes effect by virtue of an objective legal or factual situation defined by the measure in question.

Therefore Article 1 of Regulation No 1304/91, which serves to amend for the future, for all producers' organizations, certain detailed rules for applying aid for the implementation of improvement plans in the nut and locust bean sector by laying down more stringent conditions for applications by producers to change their plans in the course of execution, to receive annual instalments of aid and to draw advances in respect of such aid, is not of individual concern to producers' organizations whose plans were approved before the regulation was adopted.

In so far as the said Article 1 does not refer specifically to the aforementioned organizations, contains no concrete indication that the measures it introduces were adopted specifically taking account of the applicants' plans and it applies in the same way to all producers' organizations, whatever the date of approval of their plans, it is addressed in general terms to indeterminate classes of persons and applies to objectively determined situations.