Judgment_paragraph 63 · Aquind Ltd and Others v European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (T-492/21)

63According to settled case-law, an applicant cannot have a legitimate interest in the annulment, for a procedural breach, of a decision where the administration has no discretion and is required to act as it has done since, in such a case, the annulment of that decision can give rise only to the adoption of a new decision which is identical in substance to the annulled decision (judgment of 6 July 1983, Geist v Commission, 117/81, EU:C:1983:191, paragraph 7; see also, to that effect, judgments of 4 February 2016, Italian International Film v EACEA, T‑676/13, EU:T:2016:62, paragraph 54, and of 7 July 2021, HM v Commission, T‑587/16 RENV, not published, EU:T:2021:415, paragraph 30).