75The Court observes that, in order to ensure legal certainty and the sound administration of justice, if an action is to be admissible, the essential points of fact and of law on which it is based must be apparent from the text of the application itself, even if only stated briefly, provided the statement is coherent and comprehensible (Joined Cases 19/60, 21/60, 2/61 and 3/61 Société Fives Lille Cail and Others v High Authority [1961] ECR 281, 294, and Case T-87/05 EDP v Commission [2005] ECR II-3745, paragraph 155, and the case-law cited). In that regard, although specific points in the text of the application can be supported and completed by references to specific passages in the documents attached, a general reference to other documents cannot compensate for the lack of essential elements of legal arguments which, under Article 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure, must be included in the application (order in Case T-154/98 Asia Motor France and Others v Commission [1999] ECR II-1703, paragraph 49, and EDP v Commission, paragraph 155 and the case-law cited).
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