Time limits
Article 23
1. Any period prescribed by or set under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 or this Regulation for the purposes of appeal proceedings shall be calculated in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6 of this Article. 2. Where a period expressed in days, weeks, months or years is to be calculated from a day on which an event occurs or an action takes place, that day shall not fall within that period. 3. A period expressed in weeks, months or years shall end with the expiry of whichever day in the last week, month or year is the same day of the week, or falls on the same date, as the day during which the event or action from which the period is to be calculated occurred or took place. If, in a period expressed in months or in years, the day on which it should expire does not occur in the last month, the period shall end with the expiry of the last day of that month. 4. Where a period is expressed in months and days, it shall first be calculated in whole months, then in days. 5. Periods shall include official holidays of the Agency, Saturdays and Sundays. 6. If a period would otherwise end on a Saturday, Sunday or official holiday of the Agency, it shall be extended until the end of the first following working day.