24The Commission raises a plea of inadmissibility in respect of the application brought by the Italian Government in its entirety. It contends that an application should normally seek the annulment of a single act. It is true that the Court has accepted that, in certain exceptional cases, one application may seek the annulment of several decisions. That is the case when the decisions at issue are parallel in terms of time, procedure and subject-matter (Case 1/54 France v High Authority [1954] ECR 1), or when one of the decisions is a necessary consequence of the other (Joined Cases 25/65 and 26/65 Simet and Veram v High Authority [1967] ECR 33), or when the contested decisions are part of a complex administrative procedure (Joined Cases 12/64 and 29/64 Ley v Commission [1965] ECR 107). However, the two decisions contested by the Italian Government do not fall within either of those exceptions.
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