ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
22 February 2018 (*)
(Intervention – Dismissal – Application lodged after the expiry of the time-limit provided for in the Rules of procedure)
In Case T-748/16,
QH, residing in Woluwé-Saint-Pierre (Belgique), represented by N. Lhoëst et S. Michiels, lawyer,
applicant,
v
European Parliament, represented by M. Ecker et Í. Ní Riagáin Düro, acting as Agent,
defendant,
Request to annul the decision of 26 January 2016 rejecting the applicant’s request for assistance and award the applicant compensation for the damage
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
makes the following
Order
1        By document lodged at the Court Registry on 24 January 2018, Ute Müller and Others applied for leave to intervene in the present proceedings in support of the form of order sought by the defendant.
2        In accordance with Article 143(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, an application to intervene must be submitted within six weeks of the publication of the notice referred to in Article 79 thereof.
3        In the present case, the notice in the Official Journal of the European Union referred to in Article 79 of the Rules having been published on 23 January 2017, the application to intervene was made after the expiry of the time-limit of six weeks referred to in Article 143(1) of the Rules of Procedure, as extended on the account of distance under Article 60 thereof.
4        The application to intervene must therefore be dismissed without being served on the parties.
Costs
5        Under Article 144(6) of the Rules of Procedure, if the application to intervene is refused, the order must include a decision as to the costs relating to the application to intervene, including the costs of the applicant for leave to intervene, pursuant to Articles 134 and 135.
6        As the present order was adopted prior to service of the application for leave to intervene on the parties and before the latter could have incurred costs, it is sufficient to decide that the applicant to intervene must bear its own costs.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1.      The application for leave to intervene in Case T-748/16 lodged by Ute Müller and Others is dismissed.
2.      Ute Müller and Others shall bear its own costs.
Luxembourg, 22 February 2018.
E. Coulon
I. Pelikánová
Registrar
President
* Language of the case: English