154As regards the admissibility of the submissions relating to the reasoning in the contested decision concerning the value added services, the ‘support franchise’ system and the benefit of promotions, it must be pointed out that under the firstparagraph of Article 19 of the EC Statute of the Court of Justice and Article 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance the application initiating the proceedings must contain a summary of the pleas in law relied on. Since that requirement is mandatory, the issue of compliance with itmay be raised by the Court of its own motion. The summary of the pleas relied on, it should be pointed out, must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare its defence and the Court to rule on the action, if necessary without any other supporting information. Similar requirements are called for where a submission is made in support of a plea in law (see, for example, Case T-352/94Mo och Domsjö v Commission [1998] ECR II-1989, paragraph 333). In order to guarantee legal certainty and sound administration of justice it is necessary, in order for an action to be admissible, that the basic legal and factual particulars relied on are indicated, at least in summary form, coherently and intelligibly in the text of the application itself (see, for example, the order in Case T-145/98ADT Projekt v Commission [2000] ECR II-387, paragraph 66). While the body of the application may be supported and supplemented on specific points by references to extracts from documents annexed to it, a general reference to other documents, even those annexed to the application, cannot make up for the absence of the essential arguments in law which, in accordance with the above provisions, must appear in the application (order in Case T-154/98Asia MotorFrance and Others v Commission [1999] ECRII-1703, paragraph 49). Moreover, it is not for the Court to seek and identify in the annexes the pleas and arguments on which it may consider the action to be based, since the annexes have a purely evidential and instrumental function (judgment in Case T-84/96Cipeke v Commission [1997] ECR II-2081, paragraph 34).