Judgment_paragraph 13 · European Commission v Council of the European Union (C-63/12)

13On 13 July 2011 the Commission submitted a report to the Council on the exception clause (Article 10 of Annex XI to the Staff Regulations) (COM(2011) 440 final; ‘the report of 13 July 2011’). In order to assess whether it was necessary to use in 2011 the exception clause laid down in Article 10 of Annex XI to the Staff Regulations (‘the exception clause’), the Commission chose 15 indicators, namely gross domestic product (GDP) growth, domestic demand, inventories, net exports, private consumption, public consumption, total investment and inflation within the Union, the general government balance and public debt within the Union, total employment, the unemployment rate and the remuneration of employees within the Union, the economic sentiment indicator and employment expectations within the Union. In that regard, the Commission relied on the European economic forecasts published by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs on 13 May 2011.