Judgment_paragraph 50 · Global 8 Airlines v European Commission (C-482/24 P)

50In order to determine whether an act produces binding legal effects, it is necessary to examine, inter alia, the substance of that act and the intention of its author. In that regard, the Court has stated that examining the substance of an act involves assessing its effects in the light of objective criteria, such as the content of that act, taking into account, as appropriate, the context in which it was adopted and the powers of the institution which adopted the act, powers which should not be understood in the abstract but should be regarded as factors that inform the specific analysis of the content of that act, which is central and indispensable (see, to that effect, judgments of 6 May 2021, ABLV Bank and Others v ECB, C‑551/19 P and C‑552/19 P, EU:C:2021:369, paragraphs 40 and 41, and of 10 February 2026, WhatsApp Ireland v European Data Protection Board, C‑97/23 P, EU:C:2026:81, paragraph 67 and the case-law cited).

Global 8 Airlines v European Commission (C-482/24 P)

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