Judgment_paragraph 95 · R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. and Others v Commission of the European Communities (C-131/03 P)

95As to the claim that the Court of First Instance should have joined an appraisal of the objection of inadmissibility to the substance of the case, it must be stated that, unlike the position in the judgments cited by the appellants, an appraisal as to whether the objection of inadmissibility raised before the Court of First Instance was well founded was not dependent, in the circumstances of this case, on the appraisal to be made of the substantive pleas put forward by the appellants.