37It must be held that, according to settled case-law on compliance with time limits for bringing proceedings, the concepts of ‘unforeseeable circumstances’ and ‘force majeure’ contain the same elements and have the same legal consequences. The General Court did not err in law in recalling, in paragraph 17 of the order under appeal, that those concepts contain an objective element relating to abnormal circumstances unconnected with the appellant and a subjective element involving the obligation, on its part, to guard against the consequences of the abnormal event by taking appropriate steps without making unreasonable sacrifices (judgment of 15 December 1994, Bayer v Commission, C‑195/91 P, EU:C:1994:412, paragraph 32; orders of 8 November 2007, Belgium v Commission, C‑242/07 P, EU:C:2007:672, paragraph 17; and of 30 September 2014, Faktor B. i W. Gęsina v Commission, C‑138/14 P, not published, EU:C:2014:2256, paragraph 19).
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