59Moreover, it is not for the Court to seek and to identify, in the annexes, the pleas and arguments on which it may consider the action to be based, since the annexes have a purely evidential and instrumental function (Case T-84/96 Cipeke v Commission [1997] ECR II-2081, paragraph 34; Case T-231/99 Joynson v Commission [2002] ECR II-2085, paragraph 154; and Case T-209/01 Honeywell v Commission [2005] ECR II-5527, paragraph 57). The purely evidential and instrumental function of the annexes means that, provided that they contain elements of law on which certain pleas expressed in the application are based, those elements must be set out in the actual body of the application or, at the very least, be sufficiently identified in that application (see, to that effect, Joined Cases C-189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C-205/02 P to C-208/02 P and C-213/02 P Dansk Rørindustri and Others v Commission [2005] ECR I-5425, paragraph 99). The application must accordingly specify the nature of the grounds on which the action is based, which means that a mere abstract statement of the grounds does not satisfy the requirements of the Rules of Procedure (Case T-102/92 Viho v Commission [1995] ECR II-17, paragraph 68, and judgment of 22 November 2006 in Case T-282/04 Italy v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 60).
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