Article 91(3), second indent, of the Staff Regulations is a specific provision relating to the rules for calculating periods for filing appeals, and must be interpreted literally and strictly.

Akzo and Akcros submit that the General Court, in paragraphs 166 and 167 of the judgment under appeal, gave a ‘literal and partial interpretation’ in AM SEurope v Commission of the second condition of legal professional privilege relating to the lawyer’s status.

Must the phrase ‘in the field of passenger transport, and the carriage of goods, by rail’ as used in Article 8(2)(c) of Council Directive 92/81/EEC (1) of 19 October 1992 on the harmonisation of the structures of excise duties on mineral oils, for the purposes of defining the exemption which the Member States may provide in that field, be interpreted strictly, in accordance with its literal meaning, or, conversely, must it be interpreted broadly, as meaning that the exemption extends to fuel used by machinery for the maintenance of th ...[+++]e railway infrastructure, which moves by rail?

That specific provision, which relates to the rules for calculating periods for filing appeals, must be interpreted literally and strictly.

The text presented below does not constitute a literal interpretation of the existing Community legislation, such as the definition of e-money or deposit taking activity.

(49) However, by letter dated 24 June 1998 the Spanish authorities stated that their position did not contradict the view of the complainant that deferment of debt is a discretionary government measure adopted after examination of each individual case; but while they accept that Article 20 of the General Social Security Law uses the word "podran" (may) when referring to the authority's power to grant a deferment of payment of social security debts, only by an absolutely literal interpretation could the authority be said in the Spanish Government's view to have discretionary power.