24An interest in bringing proceedings is an essential and fundamental prerequisite for any legal proceedings. An action for annulment brought by a natural or legal person is thus admissible only in so far as that person has an interest in the annulment of the contested measure. An applicant’s interest in bringing proceedings presupposes that the annulment of the contested act is capable alone of having legal consequences, that the action is therefore appropriate, by its result, to obtain a benefit for the party which brought it and that that party can show an actual and current interest in the annulment of that act (judgment of 19 June 2009, Socratec v Commission, T‑269/03, EU:T:2009:211, paragraph 36, and order in Post Invest Europe v Commission, paragraph 23 above, EU:T:2013:246, paragraph 22).
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