ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT (Appeal Chamber)

29 March 2012

Case T‑2/12 P

Ayo Soerensen Ferraresi

v

European Commission

(Appeal — Period allowed for commencing proceedings — Manifest inadmissibility)

Appeal:      against the order of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 25 November 2009 in Case F‑5/09 Soerensen Ferraresi [2009] ECR-SC I‑A‑1-453 and II‑A‑1‑2461, seeking to have that order set aside.

Held: The appeal is dismissed. Ms Ayo Soerensen Feraresi is to bear her own costs.

Summary

Appeals — Time-limits — Method of calculation

(Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 9, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 102(2))

Under the first paragraph of Article 9 of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice, an appeal may be brought before the General Court, within two months of notification of the decision appealed against, against final decisions of the Civil Service Tribunal and decisions of that Tribunal disposing of the substantive issues in part only or disposing of a procedural issue concerning a plea of lack of jurisdiction or inadmissibility. Moreover, under Article 102(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, this prescribed time-limit is to be extended on account of distance by a single period of 10 days. The prescribed time-limit and the period added on account of distance are not distinct, and it follows that when the prescribed time-limit expires, the single period of 10 days is to be added.

(see para. 5)