Judgment_paragraph 131 · Commission of the European Communities v European Central Bank (C-11/00)

131The most direct evidence of that intention is in Article 108 EC which expressly prohibits the ECB and the members of its decision-making bodies, when exercising the powers and carrying out the tasks conferred on the ECB by the EC Treaty and the ESCB Statute, from seeking or taking instructions from Community institutions or bodies, from any government of a Member State or from any other body, and prohibits those Community institutions or bodies and those governments from seeking to influence the members of the ECB's decision-making bodies in the performance of their tasks.