26As regards, thirdly, the argument that there is an overriding public interest in having the alleged infringement of a mandatory rule of international law penalised, the General Court considered, in paragraph 38 of the order under appeal, that, whilst the Commission should not be acknowledged as having any impunity in that regard, that argument was not sufficient to establish that Mr Abdulrahim had a personal interest in the continuation of the action. Even though, as observed by Mr Abdulrahim, the Commission must comply with the mandatory rules of international law and is not entitled to adopt a decision based on information obtained through torture, Mr Abdulrahim is not, according to the General Court, entitled to act in the interests of the law or of the institutions and may put forward only such interests and claims as relate to him personally (see, to that effect, Case 85/82 Schloh v Council [1983] ECR 2105, paragraph 14).
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