6The Court has consistently held that the Community's non-contractual liability and the right to compensation for damage suffered depend on the coincidence of a set of conditions as regards the unlawfulness of the acts alleged against the institution, the fact of damage, and the existence of a direct link in the chain of causality between the wrongful act and the damage complained of (see, in particular, the judgment of 4 March 1980 in Case 49/79 Pool v Council [1980] ECR 569).
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