(Case C-265/11 P)

Appeal – Formal requirements – Representation by a lawyer – Manifest inadmissibility

Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Application lodged without the assistance of a lawyer – Putting in order by means of a later application – Not permissible – No breach of the right to an effective remedy, of the right to access to an impartial tribunal or of the right to have the case fairly heard (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 19, third para., and 21, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 37(1), first para., and 38(3)) (see paras 7-9)

Re:

Appeal brought against the order of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 14 March 2011 in Case T-429/09 Campailla v Commission by which that court dismissed the applicant’s claim for damages seeking to have made good the damage supposedly sustained in consequence of the Commission’s refusal to take action in a dispute between the applicant and the Cameroonian State – Admissibility – Essential procedural requirements – Compulsory representation of natural or legal persons by a lawyer authorised to practise before the courts or tribunals of a Member State.

Operative part

1.Mr Campailla’s appeal is inadmissible.

2.The case is removed from the register of the Court of Justice of the European Union.