Judgment_paragraph 78 · Hungary v European Parliament (C-650/18)

78As regards, second, the plea of inadmissibility raised by the Parliament with regard to the third plea in law, it should be noted that, under Article 120(c) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure and the case-law relating thereto, an application initiating proceedings must state the subject matter of the dispute, the pleas in law and arguments relied on and a summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based. That statement must be sufficiently clear and precise to enable the defendant to prepare his or her defence and the Court to rule on the application. It is therefore necessary for the essential points of law and of fact on which a case is based to be indicated coherently and intelligibly in the application itself and for the heads of claim to be set out unambiguously so that the Court does not rule ultra petita or fail to rule on a claim (judgment of 16 April 2015, Parliament v Council, C‑540/13, EU:C:2015:224, paragraph 9 and the case-law cited).