Judgment_paragraph 23 · Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV v Commission of the European Communities (C-331/05 P)

23With regard to the causal link required, it is, moreover, not disputed that both the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice and those of the Court of First Instance provide that the costs of proceedings incurred by the parties are recoverable only if they were necessary for the purposes of the proceedings. On the other hand, the causal link required under the second paragraph of Article 288 EC is established where the damage is the direct consequence of the wrongful act in question (see, to that effect, Joined Cases 64/76, 113/76, 167/78, 239/78, 27/79, 28/79 and 45/79 Dumortier Frères and Others v Council [1979] ECR 3091, paragraph 21, and Joined Cases C-363/88 and C-364/88 Finsider and Others v Commission [1992] ECR I-359, paragraph 25).