EN Official Journal of the European Union L 217/78

AMENDMENTS OF THE PRACTICE RULES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE GENERAL COURT

THE GENERAL COURT,

Having regard to Article 224 of its Rules of Procedure;

Having regard to the Practice Rules for the Implementation of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court;

HAS ADOPTED THESE AMENDMENTS OF THE PRACTICE RULES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE GENERAL COURT:

Article 1

The Practice Rules for the Implementation of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1) are hereby amended as follows:

1. In point 14, the words ‘in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of Article 54 of the Statute and in Article 8(1) of the Annex to the Statute, the date on which the procedural document was lodged with the Registrar of the Court of Justice or with the Registrar of the Civil Service Tribunal.’ are replaced by ‘in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of Article 54 of the Statute, the date on which the procedural document was lodged with the Registrar of the Court of Justice.’.

2. After point 14, the following is inserted as point 14a: ‘14a. In accordance with Article 125c of the Rules of Procedure, material produced in the context of the amicable settlement procedure referred to in Articles 125a to 125d of the Rules of Procedure shall be entered in a specific register which shall not be subject to the rules set out in Articles 36 and 37 of those Rules.’

3. After point 24, the following is inserted as point 24a: ‘24a. Material produced in the context of the amicable settlement procedure as provided for in Article 125a of the Rules of Procedure shall be placed in a file separate from the case-file.’

4. In point 26, the first sentence is replaced by the following: ‘26. At the close of the proceedings before the Court, the Registry shall arrange for the case-file and the file referred to in Article 125c(1) of the Rules of Procedure to be closed and archived.’

5. After point 33, the following is inserted as point 33a: ‘33a. The requirements of points 28 to 33 above do not apply to access to the file referred to in Article 125c(1) of the Rules of Procedure. Access to that specific file is governed by Article 125c of the Rules of Procedure.’

6. In point 110, the reference to ‘Article 78(5)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 78(6)’.

7. Point 114 is replaced by the following: ‘114. In direct actions within the meaning of Article 1 of the Rules of Procedure, the maximum number of pages (*) shall be as follows. In direct actions other than those brought pursuant to Article 270 TFEU: — 50 pages for the application and for the defence, — 25 pages for the reply and for the rejoinder, — 20 pages for a plea of inadmissibility and for observations thereon, — 20 pages for a statement in intervention and 15 pages for observations thereon. In direct actions brought pursuant to Article 270 TFEU: — 30 pages for the application and for the defence, — 15 pages for the reply and for the rejoinder, — 10 pages for a plea of inadmissibility and for observations thereon, — 10 pages for a statement in intervention and 5 pages for observations thereon. (*) The text must be presented in accordance with the requirements set out in point 96(c) of these Practice Rules.’"

8. After point 140, the following is inserted as point 140a: ‘140a. In cases brought pursuant to Article 270 TFEU, the institutions should preferably annex to the defence any acts of general application cited which have not been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, together with details of the dates of their adoption, their entry into force and, where applicable, their repeal.’

9. In point 243, the reference to ‘Article 78(3)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 78(4)’.

10. In point 264, the reference to ‘Article 156(4)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 156(5)’.

11. Annex 1 is amended as follows: (a) in the introductory part, the reference to ‘Article 78(5)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 78(6)’; (b) in point (b), the reference in the first column to ‘Article 78(3)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 78(4)’; (c) points e) to g) are renumbered points f) to h); (d) the following is inserted in the first column as point (e): ‘e) production of the complaint within the meaning of Article 90(2) of the Staff Regulations and the decision responding to the complaint (Article 78(2) of the Rules of Procedure)’; (e) in point (e), now point (f), the reference in the first column to ‘Article 78(2)’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 78(3)’; (f) the following is inserted in the first column as point (h): ‘h) indication of the dates on which the complaint within the meaning of Article 90(2) of the Staff Regulations was submitted and the decision responding to the complaint notified (Article 78(2) of the Rules of Procedure)’.

Article 2

These amendments to the Practice Rules for the Implementation of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

They shall enter into force on 1 September 2016.

Done at Luxembourg, 13 July 2016. Registrar E. COULON President M. JAEGER

(1) OJ L 152, 18.6.2015, p. 1.