Judgment_paragraph 6 · Alessandro Accorinti and Others v European Central Bank (T-79/13)

6In the light of that situation, by Decision 2010/268/EU of May 2010 on temporary measures relating to the eligibility of marketable debt instruments issued or guaranteed by the Greek Government (ECB/2010/3) (OJ 2010 L 117, p. 102), the ECB decided on the temporary suspension of ‘the Eurosystem’s minimum requirements for credit quality thresholds, as specified in the Eurosystem credit assessment framework rules for marketable assets in Section 6.3.2 of the General Documentation’ (Article 1(1) of that decision). According to Article 2 of that decision, ‘the Eurosystem’s credit quality threshold shall not apply to marketable debt instruments issued by the Greek Government’ and ‘such assets shall constitute eligible collateral for the purposes of Eurosystem monetary policy operations, irrespective of their external credit rating’. Article 3 of that decision lays down a similar rule for ‘marketable debt instruments issued by entities established in Greece and fully guaranteed by the Greek Government’.