139It should be recalled, as regards the admissibility of such claims, which can be considered by the court of its own motion as it concerns public policy, that while a claim for damages based on the second paragraph of Article 288 EC is an independent form of action in the system of remedies available in Community law, so that the fact that an application for annulment is inadmissible does not in itself render a claim for damages inadmissible (see, inter alia, Case T-514/93Cobrecaf and Others v Commission [1995] ECR II-621, paragraph 58, and the case-law cited), a claim for damages must nevertheless be held to be inadmissible when it is actually aimed at securing withdrawal of an individual decision which has become definitive and would, if upheld, have the effect of nullifying the legal effects of that decision (Case 175/84Krohn v Commission [1986] ECR 753, paragraphs 32 and 33, and Cobrecaf and Others v Commission, cited above, paragraph 59).