Judgment_paragraph 17 · Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities (C-135/93)

17In any case, to accept that an applicant could, in an action for annulment of a decision, raise a plea of illegality against an earlier act of the same kind, annulment of which he could have sought directly, would make it possible indirectly to challenge earlier decisions which were not contested within the period for bringing proceedings prescribed in Article 173 of the Treaty, thereby circumventing that time-limit.

Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities (C-135/93)

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