Order — ECLI:EU:C:1998:346
Date: 1998-07-09
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Fourth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Foodstuffs;Free movement of goods;Measures having equivalent effect;Approximation of laws;Quantitative restrictions
Concepts: Appeals
Procedure: Appeal - inadmissible;Action for failure to act
Origin: France

Summary of the O r d e r 
Appeals — Pleas in law — Mere repetition of pleas in law and arguments submitted to the Court 
of First Instance — Inadmissible — Appeal dismissed 
(EC Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 49 and 51; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, 
Art. 112(l)(c)) 
It follows from the first paragraph of Article 
51 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, read 
together with Article 112(1)(c) of the Rules 
of Procedure, that an appeal must indicate 
precisely the contested elements of the order 
which it is sought to have set aside and also 
the legal arguments supporting that claim. 
An appeal which simply repeats or repro­
duces verbatim the pleas in law and argu-
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SUMMARY — CASE C-317/97 Ρ 
ments already submitted to the Court of 
First Instance, including those based on fac­
tual allegations expressly dismissed by that 
Court, does not meet that requirement and is 
thus clearly inadmissible; such an appeal 
merely seeks, in reality, reconsideration of 
the application submitted before the Court 
of First Instance, which, under Article 49 of 
the Statute of the Court of Justice, falls out­
side the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice. 
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