28Under Article 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure an applicant is required to state in the application the subject-matter of the proceedings and the form of order sought. Although Article 48(2) of those rules authorises, in certain circumstances, new pleas in law to be introduced in the course of proceedings, the provision cannot in any circumstances be interpreted as authorising the applicant to bring new claims before the Court and thereby to modify the subject-matter of the proceedings (Case 232/78 Commission v France [1979] ECR 2729, paragraph 3, and Case T-3/99 Banatrading v Council [2001] ECR II-2123, paragraph 28).
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