33It should be recalled that, in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 21 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Article 44(1)(c) of the Rules of Procedure of 2 May 1991, all applications must contain the subject-matter of the dispute and a brief statement of the grounds on which the application is based. Irrespective of any question of terminology, that statement must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare its defence and the Court to exercise its power of judicial review. In order to guarantee legal certainty and sound administration of justice, it is necessary, in order for an action to be admissible, that the basic legal and factual particulars relied on be indicated, at least in summary form, coherently and intelligibly in the application itself. More specifically, whilst it should be acknowledged that the statement of the grounds in the application need not conform with the terminology and layout of the Rules of Procedure, and whilst the grounds may be expressed in terms of their substance rather than of their legal classification, the application must none the less set out the said grounds with sufficient clarity. A mere abstract statement of the grounds in the application does not alone satisfy the requirements of the Statute of the Court or the Rules of Procedure and the expression ‘brief statement of the pleas in law’ or ‘summary of the pleas in law’ used therein means that the application must specify on what grounds the action is based (see order of 28 April 1993 in De Hoe v Commission, T‑85/92, ECR, EU:T:1993:39, paragraphs 20 and 21 and the case-law cited).
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