Judgment_paragraph 86 · CN v European Parliament (T-343/13)

86According to case-law, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the condition relating to the breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals, the protection offered by the rule invoked must be effective vis-à-vis the person who invokes it and that person must therefore be among those on whom the rule in question confers rights. A rule which does not protect the individual against the unlawfulness invoked by him, but protects another individual, cannot be accepted as a source of compensation (judgments of 12 September 2007 in Nikolaou v Commission, T‑259/03, EU:T:2007:254, paragraph 44, and 9 July 2009 in Ristic and Others v Commission, T‑238/07, EU:T:2009:263, paragraph 60). It follows that in his action for compensation the applicant cannot invoke unlawfulness resulting from the alleged breach of rights of a third party, namely his son.