3  Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 of 7 July 1997 on the strengthening of the surveillance of budgetary positions and the surveillance and coordination of economic policies and Council Regulation (EC) No 1467/97 of 7 July 1997 on speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure, OJ C209, 2 August 1997, p 1 and p 6.
4  OJ C236, 2 August 1997, p 1; in its judgement of 13 July 2004 (C-27/04), the ECJ also mentions the Council Resolution in connection with the methodology of the deficit procedure (71 et seq. of the grounds) as having “defined more precisely and strengthened” the Stability and Growth Pact, without deriving any further specific legal consequences from this.