Judgment_paragraph 67 · Lagardère SCA and Canal+ SA v Commission of the European Communities (T-251/00)

67It must be observed, first, that the mere fact that the decision of 10 July 2000 did not amend the operative part of the earlier decision is not sufficient for the action to be ruled inadmissible. Although the courts have consistently held that only the operative part of an act is capable of producing binding legal effects and, thereby, of having adverse effects, nevertheless the statement of the reasons for an act is indispensable for determining the exact meaning of what is stated in the operative part (see, to that effect, the judgments in Case C-355/95 P TWD v Commission [1997] ECR I-2549, paragraph 21; Joined Cases T-213/95 and T-18/96 SCK and FNK v Commission [1997] ECR II-1739, paragraph 104, and the Coca-Cola judgment, paragraph 79).