Judgment_paragraph 30 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v Council of the European Union (C-209/13)

30As regards, first, the plea of inadmissibility mentioned in the preceding paragraph of this judgment, it must be recalled that, under Article 120(c) of the Rules of Procedure and the case-law relating thereto, an application initiating proceedings must state the subject-matter of the dispute and a summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based. That statement must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare his 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 and for the heads of claim to be set out unambiguously so that the Court does not rule ultra petita or fail to rule on a claim (Case C‑360/11 Commission v Spain EU:C:2013:17, paragraph 26, and Case C‑545/10 Commission v Czech Republic EU:C:2013:509, paragraph 108).