66As a preliminary point, with regard to the alleged breach of the applicants’ rights of defence, it should be borne in mind that, under Article 21 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Article 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, an application must contain a summary of the pleas in law on which it is based. That summary must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare its defence and the Court to rule on the action, if necessary without any other supporting information. The application must, accordingly, specify the nature of the grounds on which it is based and a mere abstract statement of the grounds does not therefore satisfy the requirements of the Rules of Procedure (Case T-102/92 Viho v Commission [1995] ECR II-17, paragraph 68; Case T-352/94 Mo och Domsjö v Commission [1998] ECR II-1989, paragraph 333, and Case T-224/10 Association belge des consommateurs test-achats v Commission [2011] ECR II-7177, paragraph 71). Since the applicants have not given any details of their complaint concerning infringement of their rights of defence to enable the Court to identify its substance, it must be rejected as inadmissible.
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