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1 Actions for annulment - Time-limits - Point from which time starts to run - Notification - Definition - Communication of the actual text of the decision challenged

(EC Treaty, Art. 173, fifth para.)

2 Appeals - Grounds - Erroneous assessment of the evidence adduced - Inadmissible if there is no claim that the Court of First Instance erred in law - Rejection

(EC Treaty, Art. 168a; EC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 51)

Summary

3 Notification of the Community acts referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article 173 and Article 191 of the Treaty necessarily involves the communication of a detailed account of the contents of the measure notified and of the reasons on which it is based. In the absence of such an account, its addressee would be denied the precise knowledge of the contents of the act in question, and of the reasons for which it was adopted, which he needs in order properly to bring proceedings against that decision. That requirement can be fulfilled only by the transmission of the text of the decision in issue and not by a brief summary of its contents. It follows that the time-limit for bringing proceedings starts to run only from the date of notification as defined above.

4 The appraisal by the Court of First Instance of the evidence put before it is not reviewable in appeal proceedings unless it is established that that Court erred in law.