34By way of preliminary point, it should be observed that the action is admissible, although the applicants are not addressees of the contested decision, which, moreover, is not disputed by the Commission. As regards the first applicant, it is common ground that it took the decision to grant part of the aid at issue to the Basque Country. The contested decision, which prevents the first applicant from exercising its own powers, which it enjoys directly under Spanish law, as it sees fit, therefore has a direct and individual effect on its legal position (judgments of 8 March 1988 in Exécutif régional wallon and Glaverbel v Commission, 62/87 and 72/87, ECR, EU:C:1988:132, paragraphs 6 and 8; of 30 April 1998 in Vlaamse Gewest v Commission, T‑214/95, ECR, EU:T:1998:77, paragraph 29; and of 9 September 2009 in Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission, T‑227/01 to T‑229/01, T‑265/01, T‑266/01 and T‑270/01, ECR, EU:T:2009:315, paragraph 76). As regards the second applicant, since the locus standi of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country has been established, and since one and the same application is involved, there is no need to consider whether the second applicant is entitled to bring proceedings (see, to that effect, judgment of 24 March 1993 in CIRFS and Others v Commission, C‑313/90, ECR, EU:C:1993:111, paragraph 31).
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