32It must be recalled that in accordance with Article 120(c) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court and the settled case-law relating to that provision, an application initiating proceedings must state clearly and precisely the subject matter of the proceedings and set out a summary of the pleas in law relied on, so as to enable the defendant to prepare a defence and the Court to rule on the application. It follows that the essential points of law and of fact on which such an action is based must be indicated coherently and intelligibly in the application itself and that the forms of order must be set out unambiguously so that the Court does not rule ultra petita or indeed fail to rule on one of the heads of claim (see, to that effect, judgment of 2 June 2016, Commission v Netherlands, C‑233/14, EU:C:2016:396, paragraphs 32 and 34 and the case-law cited).
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