52However, under the fourth paragraph of Article 40 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, which applies to the Court of First Instance by virtue of Article 53 of that Statute, an application to intervene must be limited to supporting the form of order sought by one of the parties. In addition, under Article 116(3) of the Rules of Procedure, the intervener must accept the case as it finds it at the time of its intervention. Although those provisions do not preclude an intervener from using arguments different from those used by the party it is supporting, that is nevertheless on the condition that they do not alter the framework of the dispute and that the intervention is still intended to support the form of order sought by that party (see, to that effect, Case C-245/92 P Chemie Linz v Commission [1999] ECR I-4643, paragraph 32; Case C-248/99 P France v Monsanto and Commission [2002] ECR I-1, paragraph 56; and Case T-119/02 Royal Philips Electronics v Commission [2003] ECR II-1433, paragraphs 203 and 212).
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