Interventions: The Court of Justice of the European Union recognizes a works council the status of interested party for the purpose of submitting to the European Commission observations on social considerations but denies the right to shareholder-employees to intervene in the absence of a sufficiently direct interest in the outcome of the dispute (AEMMELL, Comité d’entreprise SNCM, Cap Actions SNCM)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By three orders issued on the same day, the Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on three appeals against decisions of the Court of First Instance rejecting applications to intervene in state aid cases. For the record, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 40 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, intervention before the courts of the European Union is possible only if the applicant for leave to intervene shows an interest in the outcome of the proceedings