83On the contrary, in paragraph 42 of that judgment the Court, without drawing a distinction between those situations, recalled that according to settled case-law – as the General Court, moreover, correctly stated in paragraph 197 of the judgment under appeal – the condition that the natural or legal person must be directly concerned by the decision against which the action is brought, ‘laid down in the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU’, requires two cumulative criteria to be met, namely, first, that decision must directly affect the legal situation of that person and, second, it must leave no discretion to its addressees who are entrusted with the task of implementing it, such implementation being purely automatic and resulting from the EU rules alone without the application of other intermediate rules.
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