Judgment_paragraph 155 · Regione autonoma della Sardegna v Commission of the European Communities (T-171/02)

155However, where it appears that an action, the admissibility of which is in question, must in any event be dismissed on the merits, it is open to the Court to rule on the merits at the outset for the purposes of procedural economy (see, to that effect, Case C-23/00 P Council v Boehringer [2002] ECR I-1873, paragraph 52, and Case C-233/02 France v Commission [2004] ECR I-2759, paragraph 26). Similarly, where it appears that a plea of dubious connection to the subject-matter of the dispute is in any event to be dismissed as inadmissible for another reason or because it is unfounded, it is open to the Court to dismiss that plea without ruling on the issue whether the intervener went beyond the parameters of its role in support of the form of order sought by one of the main parties (see, for example, Case C-118/99 France v Commission [2002] ECR I-747, paragraphs 64 and 65).