Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2008 -
   Fondazione Opera S. Maria della Carità and Others v Commission

   (Joined Cases T-234/00 R, T-235/00 R and T-283/00 R)

   Application for interim measures - Application for suspension of
   operation - Admissibility

   1.                     Application for interim measures - Conditions of
   admissibility - Application - Formal requirements (Arts 242 EC and 243
   EC; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2))
   (see paras 16-24)

   2.                     Application for interim measures - Suspension of
   operation of a measure - Interim measures - Conditions for granting -
   Urgency - Serious and irreparable damage - Burden of proof - Commission
   decision ordering recovery of State aid (Arts 242 EC and 243 EC; Rules
   of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 104(2)) (see paras
   25-27)

   Re:

   APPLICATION for suspension of operation of Commission Decision
   2000/394/EC of 25 November 1999 on aid to firms in Venice and Chioggia
   by way of relief from social security contributions under Laws 30/1997
   and 206/1995 (OJ 2000 L 150, p. 50).

   Operative part

   The Court:

   1.

   Orders Cases T-234/00 R, T-235/00 R and T-283/00 R, while themselves
   all remaining joined, to be separated from the other cases referred to
   in the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 2 July
   2008;

   2.

   Rejects the applications for interim measures;

   3.

   Reserves the costs.