49According to settled case-law on the Community's liability for damage caused to individuals by a breach of Community law attributable to a Community institution or body, a right to reparation is afforded where three conditions are met: the rule of law infringed must be intended to confer rights on individuals; the breach must be sufficiently serious; and there must be a direct causal link between the breach of the obligation resting on the author of the act and the damage sustained by the injured parties (see Case C-472/00 P Commission v Fresh Marine [2003] ECR I-7541, paragraph 25, and case-law cited). As regards the second condition, the decisive test for finding that a breach of Community law is sufficiently serious, in circumstances such as those in the present case, is whether the Community institution or body concerned manifestly and gravely disregarded the limits on its discretion (Commission v Fresh Marine, cited above, paragraph 26).
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