Question juridique clé
Whether the request to have the Federal Tribunal determine extinction of the debts was admissible
Solution extraite
A generic request to determine whether the proceedings had become extinct was inadmissible because monetary claims must be quantified and the complaint must seek a practical enforcement remedy.
Motifs extraits
The Court held that an appeal may not be used merely to obtain a declaratory finding of illegality; only a concrete, substantiated challenge to a fee-bearing enforcement measure is admissible.