Order — ECLI:EU:T:2003:177
Date: 2003-06-25
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Development cooperation;External relations
Concepts: Limitation periods
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Provisional data;Thailand

Summary of the Order 
Actions for annulment — Time-limits — Commencement — Notification — Decision 
to conclude a research contract — Existence of a dispute between the managing bodies of 
the organisation to which the decision was addressed and one of its employees — Not 
relevant 
(Art. 230, fifth para., EC) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-287/02 
The mere fact that there is a dispute 
between the managing bodies of an organi­
sation to which a Commission decision was 
addressed and one of its employees as to 
the extent of the latter's powers, and in 
particular as to his authority to commit the 
organisation vis-a-vis third parties, cannot 
allow that organisation to distance itself 
from a contract by arguing that, since the 
employee did not have the capacity to 
represent the organisation, notification of 
the contract to that employee could not 
activate the time-limit for bringing an 
action for annulment. 
(see paras 27-28) 
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