1. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Regulatory acts entailing implementing measures – Concept – Criteria for assessment

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see paras 28, 31-33, 37, 38)

2. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Regulatory acts – Acts not entailing implementing measures and concerning the applicant directly – Concept of implementing measures – Criteria – Commission decision declaring an aid scheme incompatible with the internal market – Effects produced through the intermediary of measures taken by the national authorities – Acts constituting implementing measures in respect of the beneficiaries of the scheme, but not in respect of competing undertakings

(Arts 107(1) and 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see paras 39-42)

3. 

Appeal – Grounds – Grounds of a judgment vitiated by an infringement of EU law – Operative part well founded for other legal reasons – Rejection

(see para. 44)

4. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Action brought by a trade association set up to protect and represent its members – Admissibility – Conditions

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see para. 46)

5. 

Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Whether directly concerned – Criteria – Commission Regulation renewing the approval of an active substance under Regulation 1107/2009 – Appeal by an association made up of wheat producers and consumers and their protection associations responsible for defending the collective interests of its members – Not directly concerned – Inadmissibility

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Regulation No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Commission Regulations No 540/2011 and 2017/2324; Council Directive 91/414, Annex I)

(see paras 51, 53, 54, 56-58)

6. 

Fundamental rights – Right to effective judicial protection – Review of legality of EU measures – Procedures – Protection of that right by the EU judicature or by the national courts according to the legal nature of the contested measure – Possibility of using an annulment action or reference for a preliminary ruling on validity

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47);

(see paras 61, 62)

1. 

Dismisses the appeal;

2. 

Orders Associazione Nazionale GranoSalus – Liberi Cerealicoltori & Consumatori to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.