Judgment_paragraph 22 · Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (C-195/04)

22It is clear from Article 38(1)(c) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, and from the case-law relating to that provision, that an application must state the subject-matter of the proceedings and a summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based, and that that statement must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare its defence and the Court to rule on the application. It is therefore necessary for the essential points of law and of fact on which a case is based to be indicated coherently and intelligibly in the application itself (Case C-178/00 Italy v Commission [2003] ECR I-303, paragraph 6, judgment of 14 October 2004 in Case C-55/03 Commission v Spain, not published in the ECR, paragraph 23, and Case C-199/03 Ireland v Commission [2005] ECR I-8027, paragraph 50) and for the heads of claim to be set out unambiguously so that the Court does not rule ultra petita or indeed fail to rule on an objection (Case C-296/01 Commission v France [2003] ECR I-13909, paragraph 121, and Case C-255/04 Commission v France [2006] ECR I-5251, paragraph 24).

Commission of the European Communities v Republic of Finland (C-195/04)

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