Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 20 September
   2007 - Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie v Commission

   (Case T-254/05)

   State Aid - Measures to promote the use of insulation material from
   renewable raw materials - Decision declaring aid compatible with the
   common market - Preliminary examination - Action for annulment -
   Professional association - Meaning of `party concerned' in Article
   88(2) EC - Pleas in law on validity of decision - Inadmissibility

   1.                     Actions for annulment - Natural or legal persons
   - Measures of direct and individual concern to them - Commission
   decision finding aid compatible with the common market without opening
   the formal investigation procedure (Arts 88(2) and (3) EC and 230,
   fourth para., EC) (see paras 30-36, 47)

   2.                     Actions for annulment - Pleas in law -
   Interpretation by the court - Limits (Art. 230 EC) (see para. 48)

   Re:

   ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 379 of 11 February
   2005 relating to State Aid N 260b/2004 (Germany - Prolongation of the
   scheme to promote the use of insulation material from renewable raw
   materials).

   Operative part

   The Court:

   1.

   Dismisses the application as inadmissible;

   2.

   Orders Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche Gruppe der
   Eurima - European Insulation Manufacturers Association to bear its own
   costs and to pay the costs of the Commission;

   3.

   Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.