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Decision (EU) 2016/2386 Article 3

Decision (EU) 2016/2386 Article 3

Rules governing lodging and return

Article 3

For the purpose of setting up the security framework provided for by this decision: — the main party shall inform the General Court Registry of the day on which the information or material is lodged in accordance with Article 105(1) or (2) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court; — the main party, accompanied by a representative of the General Court Registry, shall be required to lodge the information or material provided pursuant to Article 105(1) or (2) of those Rules with the FIDUCIA office during the hours the Registry is open to the public; — the main party producing the information or material in accordance with Article 105(1) or (2) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court shall be required to remove it from the FIDUCIA office in the presence of a representative of the General Court Registry if that party does not authorise its disclosure in accordance with Article 105(4) of those Rules, as soon as it is withdrawn in accordance with Article 105(7) of those Rules or as soon as the period referred to in the first paragraph of Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union has expired, unless an appeal has been brought within that period; — if, within the period referred to in the first paragraph of Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, an appeal is brought against the decision of the General Court, the information or material produced in that case in accordance with Article 105(1) or (2) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court shall be made available to the Court of Justice. To that end, as soon as the Registrar of the General Court is informed of the existence of that appeal, he shall send a letter to the Registrar of the Court of Justice, informing him of the fact that the information or material concerned is available to the Court of Justice. The Registrar of the General Court shall simultaneously notify the security authority of the fact that the information or material concerned must be made available to the Court of Justice, without that information or material being physically moved. That notification shall be registered by the FIDUCIA office. The main party that produced that information or that material shall be required to remove it from the FIDUCIA office, in the presence of a representative of the Registry of the Court of Justice, as soon as the decision disposing of the appeal has been served, save where the case is referred back to the General Court for a ruling; — in the event that the case is referred back to the General Court, the Court of Justice shall make the information or material concerned available to the General Court as soon as the decision disposing of the appeal has been served. To that end, the Registrar of the Court of Justice shall send a letter to the Registrar of the General Court informing him of the fact that the information or material concerned is available to the General Court. The Registrar of the Court of Justice shall simultaneously notify the security authority of the fact that the information or material concerned must be made available to the General Court, without that information or material being physically moved. That notification shall be registered by the FIDUCIA office. The main party that produced that information or that material shall be required to remove it from the FIDUCIA office, in the presence of a representative of the Registry of the General Court, as soon as the period referred to in the first paragraph of Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union has expired, unless an appeal has been brought within that period.

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