Judgment_paragraph 60 · WS and Others v European Border and Coast Guard Agency (C-679/23 P)

60According to an established line of the Court’s case-law, the European Union may incur non-contractual liability under the second paragraph of Article 340 TFEU only if a number of conditions are fulfilled, namely the existence of a sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals, the fact of damage and the existence of a direct causal link between the breach of the obligation resting on the author of the act and the damage sustained by the injured parties (judgments of 5 March 1996, Brasserie du pêcheur and Factortame, C‑46/93 and C‑48/93, EU:C:1996:79, paragraph 51, and of 5 March 2024, Kočner v Europol, C‑755/21 P, EU:C:2024:202, paragraph 117 and the case-law cited).

WS and Others v European Border and Coast Guard Agency (C-679/23 P)

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