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Summary

Keywords

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1. Appeals ° Interest in bringing proceedings ° Examination by the Court of its own motion

2. Actions for annulment ° Actionable measures ° Concept ° Measures with binding legal effects ° Administrative procedure applying the rules of competition ° Letter from the Commission terminating an investigation

Summary

1. The Court may of its own motion raise the objection that a party has no interest in bringing or in maintaining an appeal on the ground that an event subsequent to the judgment of the Court of First Instance removes the prejudicial effect thereof as regards the appellant, and declare the appeal inadmissible or devoid of purpose for that reason. For an applicant to have an interest in bringing proceedings the appeal must be likely, if successful, to procure an advantage to the party bringing it.

2. An institution which is empowered to find that there has been an infringement and to impose a sanction in respect of it and to which private persons may make complaint, as is the case with the Commission in the field of competition, necessarily adopts a measure which produces legal effects and which may, as such, be the subject of proceedings for annulment when it terminates, wholly or in part, an investigation initiated upon that complaint.