CHAPTER IX
TIME-LIMITS
Article 75
1. Any period of time prescribed by the Community Treaty or , the Court or these Rules
for the taking of any procedural step shall be reckoned as follows:
(a) where a period expressed in days, weeks, months or years is to be calculated
from the moment at which an event occurs or an action takes place, the day
during which that event occurs or that action takes place shall not be counted
as falling within the period in question;
(b) a period expressed in weeks, months or in 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;
(c) Where a period is expressed in months and days, it shall first be reckoned in
whole months, then in days;
(d) Periods shall include official holidays, Sundays and Saturdays;
(e) Periods shall not be suspended during the judicial vacations.
2. If the period would otherwise end on a Saturday, Sunday or an official holiday, it
shall be extended until the end of the first following working day. A list of official
holidays drawn up by the Court shall be published in the Official Journal of the
Community.
Article 76
1. Where the period of time allowed for initiating proceedings against a measure
Adopted by an institution runs from the publication of that measure, that period
shall be calculated, for the purposes of Article 75(1)(a), from the end of the 14th day
after publication thereof in the Official Journal of the Community.
2.
The prescribed time limits shall be extended on account of distance by a single
period of ten days.
Article 77
1.
Any time-limit prescribed pursuant to these Rules may be extended by whoever
prescribed it.
2. The President may delegate to the Vice President power of signature for the purpose
of fixing time limits which, pursuant to these Rules, it falls to them to prescribe or of
extending such time- limits