Vil. ADMISSIBILITY 29. Pursuant to the provision of Article 6(2) of the Protocol "[t]he Court shall rule on the admissibility of cases taking into account the provisions of Article 56 of the Charter". 30. Furthermore under Rule 39(1) of its Rules, "[t]he Court shall conduct a preliminary examination of ... the admissibility of the application in accordance with articles 50 and 56 of the Charter and Rule 40 of these Rules". 31. Rule 40 of the Rules of Court, which in substance restates Article 56 of the Charter, sets out the conditions for the admissibility of applications as follows: “Pursuant to the provisions of Article 56 of the Charter to which Article 6(2) of the Protocol refers, applications to the Court shall comply with the following conditions: 1. disclose the identity of the Applicant notwithstanding the latter's request for anonymity; 2. comply with the Constitutive Act of the Union and the Charter; not contain any disparaging or insulting language; not be based exclusively on news disseminated through the unless it is mass media; 5. be filed after exhausting local remedies, if any, obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged; 6. be filed within a reasonable time from the date local remedies were exhausted or from the date set by the Court as being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall be seized with the matter; and 7. Not raise any mater or issues previously settled by the parties in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charter or of any legal instrument of the African Union. 10

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