Judgment_paragraph 57 · European Central Bank (ECB) and Others v Trasta Komercbanka and Others (C-663/17 P, C-665/17 P, C-669/17 P)

57In order for such an action to be admissible, it is necessary to show that the person concerned has indeed made the decision to bring the action and that the lawyers who claim to represent that person have in fact been authorised to do so (see, to that effect, judgment of 18 January 2007, PKK and KNK v Council, C‑229/05 P, EU:C:2007:32, paragraph 113 and the case-law cited). It is precisely in order to ensure that that is indeed the case that Article 51(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court requires lawyers, where the party they represent is a legal person governed by private law, to lodge at the Registry of the General Court an authority to act given by that person, as failure to produce that authority to act may entail, in accordance with Article 51(4) of those Rules, the formal inadmissibility of the application.