37Likewise, in the order in Case T-275/02 R D v EIB [2002] ECR-SC I-A-259 and II-1295, the President of the General Court, after pointing out, in paragraph 33 of that order, that a period of three months had, as a general rule, to be considered a reasonable period within which to bring an action for annulment of decisions of the EIB, and finding, in paragraph 38 of the same order, that the action had, in the case at issue, been brought five months after the adoption of the contested decision, concluded that the action was time-barred only after a review which led it to find, in paragraph 39 of that order, that the applicant had not put forward any special circumstance such as to justify that period of three months being exceeded and to outweigh the requirement of legal certainty.
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