IV.1- Mr AMOUSSOU Georges Constant asked the Court to declare the emergency and hold that his application will be subjected to expedited procedure provided by Article 59 of the Rules of procedure of the Court; He motivated the urgency by the desire to receive specialized care required by his state of health within his family and preferably outside of Benin where security does not seem guaranteed; IV.2- The Republic of Benin, in its observations made on 21 November 2014, requested the outright rejection of the motion for expedited procedure introduced by the applicant; IV.3- Article 59.1 of the Rules of the Court of Community Justice ECOWAS states that “On application by the applicant or the defendant, the President may exceptionally decide, on the basis of the facts before him and after hearing the other party, that a case is to be determined pursuant to an expedited procedure derogating from the provisions of these Rules, where the particular urgency of the case requires the Court shall give its ruling with the minimum of delay.”; Point 2 of the Article requires that the application, which tend to submit a case to an expedited procedure be made by separate document when filing the application or the defence; IV.4- The motion for expedited procedure of the applicants was filed at the Court on 23 September 2014, along with the originating application; It therefore appears that the application was made in the form and time required by the Rules; It is therefore admissible and the Court should therefore examine it; Indeed, with regard to detention and state of health, there is always urgency to decide on the measure sought; An expedited procedure tends to try the case in a relatively short time; In this case, the suit having been enrolled directly on the merit, was debated and under deliberation; It then follows that the motion for expedited procedure is groundless; - On the inadmissibility of the application made by the defendant: 7

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