Judgment_paragraph 32 · Microban International Ltd and Microban (Europe) Ltd v European Commission (T-262/10)

32Nevertheless, it must be observed that, according to case-law, by allowing a natural or legal person to institute proceedings against regulatory acts of direct concern to them which do not entail implementing measures, the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU pursues an objective of opening up the conditions for bringing direct actions (see, to that effect, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Others v Parliament and Council, paragraph 21 above, paragraph 50). Accordingly, the concept of direct concern, as recently introduced in that provision cannot, in any event, be subject to a more restrictive interpretation than the notion of direct concern as it appeared in the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC. Since it has been established, at paragraph 30 above, that the applicants were directly concerned by the contested decision, within the meaning of the concept of direct concern as laid down by the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC, it must be held that they are also directly concerned by the contested decision within the meaning of the concept of direct concern as recently introduced in the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU.

Microban International Ltd and Microban (Europe) Ltd v European Commission (T-262/10)

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