Judgment_paragraph 95 · Beamglow Ltd v European Parliament, Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (T-383/00)

95It is settled case-law that in order for the Community to incur non-contractual liability under the second paragraph of Article 288 EC for unlawful conduct of its institutions a number of conditions must be satisfied: the institutions' conduct must be unlawful, actual damage must have been suffered and there must be a causal link between the conduct and the damage pleaded (Case 6/81 Oleifici Mediterranei v EEC [1982] ECR 3057, paragraph 162, Case T-175/94 International Procurement Services v Commission [1996] ECR II-729, paragraph 44; Case T-336/94 Efisol v Commission [1996] ECR II-1343, paragraph 30, and Case T-267/94 Oleifici Italiani v Commission [1997] ECR II-1239, paragraph 20).