EUR-Lex -  61996TO0175 - EN - Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 15 May 1997. - Georges Berthu v Commission of the European Communities. - Economic and monetary policy - Commission proposal - Action for annulment - Replacement of the term "ECU" provided for in Article 109g of the EC Treaty by the term "euro" - Manifest inadmissibility. - Case T-175/96.

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Actions for annulment - Actionable measures - Definition - Measures producing binding legal effects - Proposals for a regulation - Preparatory acts

(EC Treaty, Arts 173, fourth para., and 235)

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Any measure the legal effects of which are binding on, and capable of affecting the interests of, the applicant by bringing about a distinct change in his legal position is an act or decision which may be the subject of an action for a declaration that it is void. In the particular case of acts or decisions adopted by a procedure involving several stages, that condition is satisfied in principle only if it is a measure definitively laying down the position of the institution concerned on the conclusion of that procedure.

It follows that a preliminary or purely preparatory measure, such as a proposal for a regulation submitted by the Commission to the Council under the procedure described in Article 235 of the Treaty, may not form the subject of any action for its annulment.

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