Judgment_paragraph 52 · Sopra Steria Group SA v European Parliament (T-182/15)

52It should be noted that, by asking the Court to adjudicate on the consequences of the annulment of the contested decisions by declaring contracts concluded with other tenderers on the basis of the contested decisions to be null and void, the applicant is seeking to obtain a declaration relating to the effects of the present judgment, which would also constitute an order relating to how the Parliament is to implement that judgment. It is not for the Court, in exercising its power of review under Article 263 TFEU, to make statements of law in the abstract (see, by analogy, order of 5 July 2017, EEB v Commission, T‑448/15, not published, EU:T:2017:503, paragraph 40). Further, it is settled case-law that the Court is not entitled, in the context of a review of legality on the basis of Article 263 TFEU, to issue directions to the institutions or to assume the role assigned to them. That limitation of the scope of judicial review applies to all types of contentious matters that might be brought before the Court (see judgment of 15 June 2017, Bay v Parliament, T‑302/16, not published, EU:T:2017:390, paragraph 45 and the case-law cited; see also, to that effect, orders of 12 November 1996, SDDDA v Commission, T‑47/96, EU:T:1996:164, paragraph 45, and of 6 May 2013, Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon v ECDC, T‑577/11, not published, EU:T:2013:229, paragraph 12). The only possibility open to the Court under Article 264 TFEU is to annul the measure concerned. Under Article 266 TFEU, it is then for the institution concerned to adopt the necessary measures to implement the Court’s judgment (see, to that effect, judgment of 12 March 2008, Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, T‑345/03, EU:T:2008:67, paragraph 46).