Judgment_paragraph 94 · Jean-Charles Marchiani v European Parliament (C-566/14 P)

94It should be noted that the Court has previously held that compliance with a limitation period may not be raised by a Court of the European Union of its own motion but must be raised by the party affected (judgment of 8 November 2012 in Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, C‑469/11 P, EU:C:2012:705, paragraph 51 and the case-law cited). In the present case, it is common ground that the appellant explicitly submitted before the General Court that the Parliament acted out of time as regards the establishment of the amounts receivable by it, in that that action was contrary to the provisions of Regulations No 1605/2002 and No 2342/2002 providing for rules on limitation applicable to entitlements of the European Union in respect of third parties.