Judgment_paragraph 103 · The Queen, on the application of ABNA Ltd and Others v Secretary of State for Health and Food Standards Agency, Fratelli Martini & C. SpA and Cargill Srl v Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali and Others, Ferrari Mangimi Srl and Associazione nazionale tra i produttori di alimenti zootecnici (Assalzoo) v Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali and Others and Nederlandse Vereniging Diervoederindustrie (Nevedi) v Productschap Diervoeder (C-453/03, C-11/04, C-12/04, C-194/04)

103As the Court has held in its judgment in Joined Cases C-143/88 and C-92/89 Zuckerfabrik Süderdithmarschen and Zuckerfabrik Soest [1991] ECR I-415, paragraph 18 (‘Zuckerfabrik’), references for preliminary rulings on the validity of a measure, like actions for annulment, allow the legality of acts of the Community institutions to be reviewed. In the context of actions for annulment, Article 242 EC enables applicants to request enforcement of the contested act to be suspended and empowers the Court to order such suspension. The coherence of the system of interim legal protection therefore requires that national courts should also be able to order suspension of enforcement of a national administrative measure based on a Community regulation, the legality of which is contested (see also Case C-465/93 Atlanta Fruchthandelsgesellschaft and Others (I) [1995] ECR I-3761, paragraph 22, and Case C-68/95 T. Port [1996] ECR I-6065, paragraph 49; on the Court's lack of jurisdiction to order interim measures in the context of preliminary-ruling proceedings, see the order of the President of the Court in Case C-186/01 R Dory [2001] ECR I-7823, paragraph 13).