EUR-Lex -  61997CO0151 - EN - Order of the President of the Court of 17 June 1997. - National Power plc and PowerGen plc v British Coal Corporation and Commission of the European Communities. - Appeal - Order of the Court of First Instance dismissing applications for leave to intervene - Interest in the result of the case. - Joined cases C-151/97 P(I) and C-157/97 P(I).

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Keywords

Procedure - Intervention - Persons having an interest - Assessment by the Community judicature of the interest in intervening

(ECSC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 34; EC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 37; EAEC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 38)

Summary

For the purposes of granting leave to intervene, the Community judicature ascertains whether those seeking it are directly affected by the contested act and whether their interest in the result of the case is established. Similarly, it is necessary to establish a direct, existing interest in the grant by the Court of the order as sought and not an interest in relation to the pleas in law put forward. The interest necessary in this respect must relate not merely to abstract legal arguments but to the actual form of order sought by a party to the main action.

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