«(Appeal – Time-limit – Whether inadmissible)»

Procedure – Period for bringing proceedings – Time-barred – Unforeseeable circumstances or force majeure – Appeal – Notification of the contested judgment – Appellant lacking an address for service in Luxembourg (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 45, second para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 37(6); Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(2)) No derogation from the application of the Community rules on procedural time-limits may be made save where the circumstances are quite exceptional, in the sense of being unforeseeable or amounting to

ORDER OF THE COURT (First Chamber) 19 February 2004 (1)

((Appeal – Period within which an appeal must be lodged – Inadmissibility))

In Case C-369/03 P,

appellant,

APPEAL against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Fourth Chamber) of 9 April 2003 in Case T-217/01

the other party to the proceedings being:

THE COURT (First Chamber),

composed of: P. Jann (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. Rosas, A. La Pergola, R. Silva de Lapuerta and K. Schiemann, Judges,

Advocate General: J. Kokott,

after hearing the views of the Advocate General, makes the following

On those grounds,

THE COURT (First Chamber),

hereby orders:

Luxembourg, 19 February 2004

R. Grass

P. Jann

Registrar

President of the First Chamber