Order — ECLI:EU:T:2009:216
Date: 2009-06-22
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Appeals Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Appeals;Admissibility and examination of applications, forms of order sought and pleas in law
Procedure: Appeal;Staff cases;Action for damages

Summary Appeals – Statement of pleas in law and legal arguments in the application – Plea not sufficiently clear – Reference to all the annexes – Inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 138(1)(c)) In an appeal before the Court of First Instance against a decision of the Civil Service Tribunal, a general reference to documents other than the appeal cannot make up for the absence of essential elements of the legal arguments which must be included in the appeal pursuant to Article 138(1)(c) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance. Furthermore, it is not a matter for the Court to seek and identify, in the annexes, pleas in law and arguments which it might deem to constitute the basis of the action, since the annexes have a purely evidential and instrumental function. (see para. 24) See: T‑154/98 Asia Motor France and Others v Commission [1999] ECR II‑1703, para. 49; T‑209/01 Honeywell v Commission [2005] ECR II‑5527, para. 57