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Document 62018TO0396

Order of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 16 May 2019.
International Tax Stamp Association Ltd (ITSA) v European Commission.
Action for annulment — Approximation of laws — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products and related product — Establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products — Delegated Regulation and implementing acts — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility.
Case T-396/18.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

Order of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 16 May 2019 –
ITSA v Commission

(Case T‑396/18)

(Action for annulment — Approximation of laws — Manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products and related product — Establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products — Delegated Regulation and implementing acts — Lack of direct concern — Inadmissibility)

1. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria

(Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU)

(see para. 21)

2. 

Plea of illegality — Measures the illegality of which may be pleaded — General measure providing the basis of the contested decision — Admissibility — Conditions

(Art. 277 TFEU)

(see para. 39)

Re:

Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/573 of 15 December 2017 on key elements of data storage contracts to be concluded as part of a traceability system for tobacco products (OJ 2018 L 96, p.1), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products (OJ 2018 L 96, p.7), and Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/576 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for security features applied to tobacco products (OJ 2018 L 96, p 57).

Operative part

1. 

The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. 

There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application for leave to intervene of the Council of the European Union.

3. 

International Tax Stamp Association Ltd (ITSA) shall bear its own costs and shall pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.

4. 

The Council shall bear its own costs relating to the application to intervene.
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