Judgment_paragraph 82 · Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v Commission of the European Communities (T-228/99, T-233/99)

82Alternatively, the applicants submit that the Commission's functions were also restricted to the performance of current and urgent business because the Commission was bound by its own statement of 17 March 1999 and by its guidelines of 23 March 1999 concerning the activities to which it intended to confine itself following its resignation. WestLB observes that the Court has often held that statements of the Commission of general scope are binding on it even if they are not in the form of a legal measure provided for in Article 249 EC (Case C-313/90 CIRFS and Others v Commission [1993] ECR I-1125, paragraphs 34 to 36, Case T-380/94 AIUFFASS and AKT v Commission [1996] ECR II-2169, paragraph 57, and Case T-149/95 Ducros v Commission [1997] II-2031, paragraph 61).

Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v Commission of the European Communities (T-228/99, T-233/99)

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