Judgment_paragraph 50 · Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Freistaat Sachsen v European Commission (C-654/17 P)

50In accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 40 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, a party which is granted leave to intervene in a case submitted to the General Court may not alter the subject matter of the dispute as defined by the forms of order sought by the main parties and the pleas in law raised by those parties. It follows that arguments submitted by an intervener are admissible only if they come within the framework provided by those forms of order and pleas in law (see, inter alia, judgments of 10 November 2016, DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission, C‑449/14 P, EU:C:2016:848, paragraph 114, and of 25 October 2017, Commission v Council (CMR-15), C‑687/15, EU:C:2017:803, paragraph 23). An intervener has no right to rely on new pleas in law, distinct from those relied on by the applicant (judgment of 10 November 2016, DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission, C‑449/14 P, EU:C:2016:848, paragraph 121).