Judgment_paragraph 6 · Sadam Zuccherifici, divisione della SECI - Società Esercizi Commerciali Industriali SpA, Sadam Castiglionese SpA, Sadam Abruzzo SpA, Zuccherificio del Molise SpA and Società Fondiaria Industriale Romagnola SpA (SFIR) v Council of the European Union (C-41/99 P)

6The applicants lodged their observations on the objection of inadmissibility on 13 July 1998. Relying on the Opinion of Advocate General Van Gerven in Case C-213/91 Abertal and Others v Commission [1993] ECR I-3177, they submitted that Regulation No 2613/97 had legal effects that adversely affected them and that those effects resulted directly from the contested act itself, and were not the consequence of any subsequent decision taken by a Community institution or Member State. Accordingly, they requested the Court of First Instance to dismiss the objection raised by the Council and declare the action admissible.