Court of Justice 25 February 1999, C-84/96 (Kingdom of the Netherlands v Commission of the European Communities.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I - Subject-matter of the actions 1 By application lodged on 27 September 1995, the Kingdom of the Netherlands brought an action (`the first action') under the first paragraph of Article 173 of the EC Treaty seeking (i) annulment of the Commission's decision dated 28 July 1995, adopted in the form of a letter from the Commissioner