. THAT ASSOCIATION WAS REGISTERED AT THE PREFECTURE DE POLICE IN PARIS ON 20 JUNE 1984 ( JORF OF 8.11 . 1984 , NC , P . 10241 , NOTICE REPLACING AND CANCELLING THOSE CONTAINED IN THE JORF OF 25.7.1984 , NC 172 , PP . 6604 AND 6608 ). IT WAS THAT NEW ASSOCIATION WHICH PUT UP A LIST FOR ' LES VERTS - EUROPE ECOLOGIE ' AT THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS OF JUNE 1984 , HAVING SUBMITTED ON 28 APRIL 1984 THE DECLARATION OF AFFILIATION REFERRED TO IN RULE 4 OF THE 1983 RULES . IT WAS ALSO THAT ASSOCIATION WHICH , IN A LETTER OF 23 JULY 1984 , SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THOSE RULES TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT . AS A RESULT OF THAT REQUEST IT RECEIVED A SUM OF 82 958 ECU , CALCULATED BY APPLYING TO THE 680 080 VOTES OBTAINED A FUNDING FACTOR PER VOTE OF 0.1206596 .
14 IN VIEW OF THOSE NEW FACTORS , THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONTENDED FIRST OF ALL THAT THE APPLICANT ASSOCIATION ' LES VERTS - PARTI ECOLOGISTE ' HAD , BY VIRTUE OF ITS BEING DISSOLVED , LOST THE CAPACITY TO PURSUE THESE PROCEEDINGS AND THAT THE RULE THAT IT CONTINUED TO HAVE LEGAL PERSONALITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF ITS WINDING-UP COULD NOT APPLY TO THIS ACTION SINCE THE ACTION HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW ASSOCIATION . WHILE NOT DENYING THAT THE NEW ASSOCIATION , ' LES VERTS - CONFEDERATION ECOLOGISTE - PARTI ECOLOGISTE ' , COULD CONTINUE THE PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED BY THE APPLICANT ASSOCIATION , THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ARGUED THAT THE PROCEEDINGS HAD TO BE CONTINUED WITHIN A PERIOD LAID DOWN BY THE COURT AND THAT THIS HAD TO BE DONE CLEARLY BY THE ORGANS OF THE NEW ASSOCIATION EMPOWERED TO DO SO UNDER THE ASSOCIATION ' S RULES . SINCE IT CONSIDERED THAT THE LATTER CONDITION HAD NOT BEEN FULFILLED , THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONTENDED THAT THE COURT SHOULD DISMISS THE APPLICATION .
15 IT SHOULD FIRST BE POINTED OUT THAT IT CAN BE SEEN FROM THE AGREEMENT OF 29 MARCH 1984 THAT THE DISSOLUTION OF THE TWO ASSOCIATIONS , INCLUDING THE APPLICANT ASSOCIATION , TOOK PLACE SUBJECT TO THEIR BEING MERGED TO FORM A NEW ASSOCIATION . THE DISSOLUTION AND MERGER OF THE ORIGINAL ASSOCIATIONS AND THE FORMATION OF THE NEW ASSOCIATION WERE THUS BROUGHT ABOUT BY MEANS OF A SINGLE ACT ; CONSEQUENTLY THERE IS BOTH LEGAL AND TEMPORAL CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE APPLICANT ASSOCIATION AND THE NEW ASSOCIATION AND THE LATTER HAS ACQUIRED THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE FORMER .
16 SECONDLY , THE MERGER AGREEMENT EXPRESSLY STATES THAT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED , AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE INSTITUTED BEFORE THE COURT OF JUSTICE , ' ARE TO CONTINUE ON THE SAME TERMS ' AND ' UNDER THE SAME ARRANGEMENTS ' .
17 THIRDLY , THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ITSELF REFERRED DURING THE ORAL PROCEDURE TO A DECISION ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL INTERREGIONAL COMMITTEE OF