45It is appropriate, however, to consider whether the complaint concerning the DKK 140 million provision was validly raised in the application itself. Under the first paragraph of Article 21 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, which is applicable to the Court of First Instance by virtue of the first paragraph of Article 53 of that Statute, as well as under Article 44( 1 )(c) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, all applications initiating proceedings are to state the subject-matter of the proceedings and to include a summary of the pleas raised. That statement must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare its defence and the Court to rule on the application, if necessary without any further information. In order to guarantee legal certainty and the sound administration of justice it is necessary, in order for a plea to be admissible, that the essential matters of law and fact relied on are stated, at least in summary form, coherently and intelligibly in the application itself (see Case T-110/98 RJB Mining v Commission [20001 ECR II-2971, paragraph 23, and the case-law cited therein; Case T-195/00 Travelex Global and Financial Services and Interpayment Services v Commission [2003] ECR II-1677, paragraph 26).
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