58The applicants maintain that the defendant institutions acted in breach of the Community rules relating to the protection of animal and public health, and also the principles of sound administration and the protection of legitimate expectations and the precautionary principle, which are higher-ranking rules of law for the protection of individuals. They observe that omissions by the Community institutions can give rise to liability on the part of the Community where the institutions have infringed a legal obligation to act under a provision of Community law (Case T-572/93 Odigitria v Council and Commission [1995] ECR II-2025, paragraph 35).
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