43It should be noted that the strict application of those procedural rules serves the requirements of legal certainty and the need to avoid any discrimination or arbitrary treatment in the administration of justice. In accordance with the second paragraph of Article 45 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, no derogation from the procedural time-limits may be made save where the circumstances are quite exceptional, in the sense of being unforeseeable or amounting to force majeure (see, to that effect, inter alia, Case 42/85 Cockerill-Sambre v Commission [1985] ECR 3749, paragraph 10; and order in Case C-242/07 P Belgium v Commission [2007] ECR I-9757, paragraph 16).
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