Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1999:588
Date: 1999-11-25
Language of the case: French
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Appeal - unfounded;Staff cases

Summary of the Judgment 
Appeals •— Pleas in ¡aw — Erroneous assessment of facts — Inadmissibility 
(EC Treaty, Art. 168a (now Art. 225 EC); EC Statute of the Court of justice. Art. 51, first 
para.) 
Under Article 168a of the Treaty (now 
Article 225 EC) and the first paragraph of 
Article 51 of the Statute of the Court of 
Justice, an appeal may be based only on 
grounds relating to the infringement of 
rules of law, to the exclusion of any 
appraisal of the facts. 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-153/99 P 
Therefore an appeal the sole ground of 
which amounts to challenging the appraisal 
by the Court of First Instance of facts 
which it considered to be objective, rele­
vant and consistent when it decided that 
the contested measures should be annulled 
for infringement of Article 176 of the 
Treaty (now Article 233 EC) and abuse of 
powers, must be dismissed. 
(see paras 15-16) 
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