ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Appeal Chamber)
14 December 2007
Case T-311/07 P
Bart Nijs
v
Court of Auditors of the European Communities
(Appeal – Civil service – Officials – Decision against which an appeal may be brought – Order deleting certain passages in a pleading – Appeal manifestly inadmissible)
Appeal: against the order of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 16 May 2007 in Case F-49/06 Nijs v Court of Auditors (not published in the ECR), seeking to have that order set aside.
Held: The appeal is dismissed as manifestly inadmissible. Mr Bart Nijs is ordered to pay his own costs.
Summary
Appeals – Admissibility – Decisions against which an appeal may be brought
(Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 9; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 145)
An appeal brought against an order of the Court of First Instance deleting certain passages in a pleading must be dismissed
as manifestly inadmissible pursuant to Article 145 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance. Such an order
does not fall within the categories of decisions against which an appeal may be brought within the meaning of Article 9 of
Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice.
(see paras 6-10)