27While an action for annulment is available against all measures taken by the institutions of the European Union, whatever their nature or form, and in certain cases, subject to the specific conditions and arrangements authorised by the fifth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU, against measures taken by bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union, that is conditional, where the action is brought by a natural or legal person, on those measures being intended to produce binding legal effects which are capable of affecting the interests of the applicant by bringing about a distinct change in his legal position (see, to that effect, judgments of 11 November 1981 in IBM v Commission, 60/81, ECR, EU:C:1981:264, paragraphs 9 and 10; 13 October 2011 in Deutsche Post and Germany v Commission, C‑463/10 P and C‑475/10 P, ECR, EU:C:2011:656, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited; and order of 13 March 2015 in European Coalition to End Animal Experiments v ECHA, T‑673/13, ECR, EU:T:2015:167, paragraph 22).
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