International Fruit Company and others v Commission of the European [1971] ECR 411

Under a regulation the Community granted a certain number of licences to import fruit from outside the EU each week, leaving it to national agencies to inform commission of size of licences requested by each company, and the commission would then decide on the licences to grant to each imported.

Plaintiffs, apple importers, appealed against a rejection of their request for licences.

On the question of standing ECJ held that Plaintiffs’ complaints were admissible as they were concerned individually and directly as Article 230 requires.