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Document 62022CJ0122
Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 January 2024.
Dyson Ltd and Others v European Commission.
Appeal – Energy – Directive 2010/30/EU – Indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by energy-related products – Delegated regulation of the European Commission supplementing that directive – Energy labelling of vacuum cleaners – Annulment – Actions for damages – Non-contractual liability of the European Union – Requirement of a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals – Manifest and grave disregard for the limits of discretion – Relevant factors in the case of the absence of any discretion.
Case C-122/22 P.
Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 January 2024.
Dyson Ltd and Others v European Commission.
Appeal – Energy – Directive 2010/30/EU – Indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by energy-related products – Delegated regulation of the European Commission supplementing that directive – Energy labelling of vacuum cleaners – Annulment – Actions for damages – Non-contractual liability of the European Union – Requirement of a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals – Manifest and grave disregard for the limits of discretion – Relevant factors in the case of the absence of any discretion.
Case C-122/22 P.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2024:11
Case C‑122/22 P
Dyson Ltd and Others
v
European Commission
Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 January 2024
(Appeal – Energy – Directive 2010/30/EU – Indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by energy-related products – Delegated regulation of the European Commission supplementing that directive – Energy labelling of vacuum cleaners – Annulment – Actions for damages – Non-contractual liability of the European Union – Requirement of a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals – Manifest and grave disregard for the limits of discretion – Relevant factors in the case of the absence of any discretion)
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Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Unlawfulness – Sufficiently serious breach of EU law – Requirement that the institutions manifestly and seriously disregard the limits of their discretion – Adoption by the Commission of a delegated regulation imposing energy labelling in respect of vacuum cleaners – No sufficiently serious breach
(Art. 290 and Art. 340, second para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive 2010/30)
(see paragraphs 26-33, 47-57, 64-71, 76-79, 168, 169, 171)
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Appeal – Grounds – Distortion of the clear sense of the evidence – Absence
(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)
(see paragraphs 88-94)
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Appeal – Grounds – Breach of the prohibition on ruling ultra petita – None – Infringement of the rights of the defence – Absence
(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)
(see paragraphs 95, 156-158)
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Appeal – Grounds – Admissibility – Conditions – Ground of appeal alleging distortion of the clear sense of the evidence – Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and show the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion
(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)
(see paragraphs 109-111)