Orders nº T-814/16 of The General Court, April 24, 2017

• Resolution Date: April 24, 2017
• Issuing Organization: The General Court
• Decision Number: T-814/16

(Application initiating proceedings - Representation by a lawyer -Applicant not represented by a lawyer who is a third person - Manifest inadmissibility)

In Case T-814/16,

Krassimira Georgieva Mladenova, residing in Troyan (Bulgaria),

applicant,

v

European Parliament

defendant,

APPLICATION seeking an order that the European Parliament take the necessary measures to give effect to the applicant’s purported nomination as ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Federal Republic of Germany,

THE GENERAL COURT (Eighth Chamber),

composed of A. M. Collins (Rapporteur), President, R. Barents and J. Passer, Judges,

Registrar: E. Coulon,

makes the following

Order

Procedure and form of order sought by the applicant

1 By application lodged at the Court Registry on 18 November 2016, the applicant brought the present action where she claims that the Court should order the European Parliament to implement a decree purported to have been adopted by Javier Solana, former High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, nominating her as ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Federal Republic of Germany.

2 Under Article 126 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, where it is clear that the action is manifestly inadmissible, the General Court may decide to give a decision by reasoned order without taking further steps in the proceedings.

3 In the present case, the Court considers that it has sufficient information available to it from the material in the file and has decided, pursuant to that article, to give a decision without taking further steps in the proceedings.

4 The applicant signed the application in her capacity as a lawyer.

5 Pursuant to the third and fourth paragraphs of Article 19 and the first paragraph of Article 21 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, applicable to the General Court pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 53 thereof, parties other than the Member States and the institutions of the Union, the States which are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement) and also the EFTA Surveillance Authority referred to in the EEA Agreement are to be represented by a lawyer authorised to practise before a court of a Member State or of another State which is a party to the EEA Agreement. In addition, the application must contain the applicant’s name and permanent address and the description of the signatory. Finally, under...