Judgment_paragraph 42 · HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping GmbH v Council of the European Union (T-692/15)

42It should be recalled that, according to settled case-law, an action for damages under the second paragraph of Article 340 TFEU is an autonomous form of action which differs from an action for annulment in that its end is not the abolition of a particular legal act, but compensation for damage caused by an EU institution (judgments of 2 December 1971, Zuckerfabrik Schöppenstedt v Council, 5/71, EU:C:1971:116, paragraph 3, and of 18 September 2014, Georgias and Others v Council and Commission, T‑168/12, EU:T:2014:781, paragraph 32).

HTTS Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping GmbH v Council of the European Union (T-692/15)

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