i SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION 1. By Application dated 18 October 2011, which reached the Registry on 1 December 2011, Mr. Atabong Denis ATEMKENG, a Cameroonian national (here-in-after referred to as “the Applicant”) and staff member of the African Union Commission brought the African Union (here-in- after referred to as “the Respondent”) before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (here-in-after referred to as “the Court’) to obtain a judgement stating that Article 34(6) of the Protocol which established an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (here-in-after referred to as the “Protocol”), is inconsistent with the Constitutive Act of the African Union (here-in-after referred Charter on Human to as the “Constitutive Act") and the African and Peoples’ Rights (here-in after referred to as “the Charter’) and that it should on those grounds be declared null and void. Il. PROCEDURE 2. The Application was received at the Registry of the Court on 1 December 2011 and registered as Application 014/2011. 3. By letter dated 5 January 2012, the Registrar acknowledged receipt of the Application, pursuant to Rule 34(3) of the Rules. 4. Pursuant to Rule 5(1) of the Rules, the Registrar forwarded copies of the letter to the President and to the other members of the Court. 5. Pursuant to Article 22 of the Protocol and Court, (here-in-after referred to as “the Rule 8(2) of the Rules of Rules”), oe \ Judge Ben KIOKO, yO.