Judgment_paragraph 29 · Fabien Courtois and Others v European Commission (T-761/21)

29At the hearing, the Commission explained that the subsequent communication of the French version of the express decision, as required by Article 41(4) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the fourth paragraph of Article 24 TFEU and Article 2 of Council Regulation No 1 of 6 October 1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community (OJ English Special Edition 1952-1958, p. 59), as amended by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013 (OJ 2013 L 158, p. 1), might have caused time to begin to run again for the purpose of challenging the act. For their part, the applicants asserted, in essence, that they had sought annulment of the express decision in both language versions to avoid falling into a ‘procedural trap’. They emphasised that they sought to obtain a decision of the Court on the substance of their action, not on the issue of the language of the express decision, and that they had not sought to cause time to begin to run again for the purpose of lodging their statement of modification.