Order — ECLI:EU:C:2008:358
Date: 2008-06-20
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Economic and monetary policy
Concepts: General
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded
Origin: Spain

Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 June 2008 – Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30 v Commission (Case C‑448/07 P) Appeal – Provision of data relating to the excessive deficit procedure – Regulation (EC) No 3605/93 – European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA 1995) – Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 – Classification of the body ‘Madrid Calle 30’ in the ‘general government’ sector – Eurostat press release – Actionable act Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Measures producing binding legal effects – Commission press release publishing data relating to government debt and deficit – Implied decision approving the classification of a body in the general government sector of the European System of Accounts 1995 – None (Art. 230 EC; Council Regulation No 3605/93, Arts 8a(1), 8c, 8g, 8h and 8i(1) (see paras 45-53) Re: Appeal against order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 12 July 2007 in Case T-177/06 Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30, SA v Commission dismissing as inadmissible an action for the annulment of the Eurostat news release No 48/2006 of 24 April 2006 to the extent that it contains a decision of the Commission (Eurostat) on the classification of Madrid Calle 30 in the ‘general government’ sector within the European System of Accounts (ESA 95). Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30, SA to pay the costs.