33In order to satisfy the condition for the Community to incur non-contractual liability for the unlawfulness of the conduct of the institutions that is objected to, the case-law requires a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law ‘intended to confer rights on individuals’ to be established (Case C-352/98 P Bergaderm and Goupil v Commission [2000] ECR I-5291, paragraph 42, and Holcim (Deutschland) v Commission, paragraph 31 above, paragraph 47; Sison I, paragraph 1 above, paragraph 234) or, in the older wording, of a rule of law ‘for the protection of the individual’ (Case C-282/90 Vreugdenhil v Commission [1992] ECR I-1937, paragraph 19, and Case C-390/95 P Antillean Rice Mills and Others v Commission [1999] ECR I-769, paragraphs 58 and 59), or, yet again, of a rule of law ‘intended to protect individuals’ (Case T-4/01 Renco v Council ECR II-171, paragraph 60). The Court considers these three expressions to be mere variations on a single legal concept, which is expressed below by the formula ‘intended to confer rights on individuals’.
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