Judgment_paragraph 54 · Federazione Italiana Golf (FIG) v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica - ISTAT and Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze and Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri (FISE) v Istituto Nazionale di Statistica - ISTAT and (C-612/17, C-613/17)

54In the light of the foregoing considerations, the following answer should be given to the first question: the concept of ‘public intervention in the form of general regulations applicable to all units working in the same activity’, referred to in the second sentence of paragraph 20.15 of Annex A to Regulation No 549/2013, must be interpreted as covering any intervention by a public sector unit which enacts or applies rules intended to make all units working in the activity concerned equally and uniformly subject to overarching, broad and abstract rules or general guidance, without such rules being capable, due to their particularly ‘excessive’ nature or character, within the meaning of paragraph 20.309(h) of Annex A to Regulation No 549/2013, of effectively dictating the general policy or programme of the units working in the activity concerned.