Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 3 November 2008. – Union nationale de l’apiculture française and Others v Commission of the European Communities.

Subject of the case

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Directive 2007/52/EC of 16 August 2007 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include ethoprophos, pirimiphos-methyl and fipronil as active substances (OJ 2007 L 214, p. 3).

Operative part

Operative part

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

2. Orders that there is no need to rule on the applications to intervene;

3. Orders Union nationale de l’apiculture française, Deutscher Berufs- und Erwerbsimkerbund eV, Unione nazionale associazioni apicoltori italiani and Asociación Galega de Apicultura to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the Commission.