... concern to the applicant, and it must be of individual concern to the applicant. A "Decision" has a far wider definition than that under Art 249 EC (Measures binding in their entirety upon those to whom it is addressed)4 and may include the "decision" to close a file5 or not to pursue a course of action.6 It may be said that any measure of the institutions of the EC having legal effect will fall under Art 230 as a reviewable act unless they are not acting as such a body.7 The meaning of "Direct Concern" relates not to the gravity of the impairment suffered by the applicant or that there exists a connection between the act and the applicant, but that it produces an immediate, automatic and inevitable legal consequence upon him. Should a measure be of "indirect" concern, then it will require the intervention of a third party with another, separate, ...

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