1. 

Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission decision terminating an aid proceeding — Competitor of the undertaking receiving the aid — Right to bring an action — Conditions — Demonstration of significant harm to its market position — Criteria for assessment

(Arts 108(2) and (3) TFEU and 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see paras 37-40, 44-46)

2. 

Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Regulatory acts entailing implementing measures or not — Meaning — Court remedies available against such measures — Conditions for using objection of illegality or reference for a preliminary ruling on validity

(Art. 19 TEU; Arts 263, fourth para., TFEU, 267 TFEU and 277 TFEU)

(see paras 63-66, 74)

3. 

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

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

(see para. 71)

4. 

State aid — Planned aid — Grant of aid in infringement of the prohibition laid down by Article 108(3) TFEU — Later Commission decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market — Effect — Ex post facto regularisation of measures of national law concerning the grant of the aid — None — Irrelevance of the date of making an application for reimbursement

(Art. 108(3) TFEU)

(see paras 77, 78)

5. 

State aid — Compliance with EU rules — Role of the national courts — Safeguarding of the rights of individuals when the obligation to give prior notice has been infringed — Jurisdiction to order the recovery of non-notified aid, even subsequently declared compatible with the common market — Jurisdiction to rule on an application for compensation for the harm caused due to the illegal nature of such a measure

(see para. 78)

6. 

Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission decision finding State aid compatible with the internal market at the conclusion of the formal investigation procedure — Action of a competing undertaking not demonstrating the existence of significant harm to its market position — Participation in the preliminary examination phase of the aid — Insufficient basis on which to contest the merits of the decision

(Arts 108(3) TFEU and 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see paras 81-84)

1. 

The action is dismissed as being inadmissible.

2. 

Allergopharma GmbH & Co. KG shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.

3. 

Bencard Allergie GmbH shall bear its own costs.