1. Neither Article 64 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance nor Article 24 of the Statute of the Court of Justice, also applicable to the Court of First Instance pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 53 of that Statute, nor any other provision of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance and of the Statute of the Court of Justice, place any obligation on the Court of First Instance to advise the party lodging an action that his application is inadmissible when it has not been signed by a lawyer authorised to appear before the Community courts.

In the absence of any provision requiring the Court of First Instance to advise the signatories of documents who do not satisfy the requirements of Article 19 of the Statute of the Court of Justice that such a document is not properly before the Court, the Court of First Instance is also not bound to give such advice within a period which enables the applicant to lodge an application within the prescribed period.

The purpose of the investigation is to identify any donor who might have contributed to causing the transfusion reaction and to retrieve available blood components from that donor, as well as to notify consignees and recipients of components collected from the same donor in the event that they might have been put at risk.

5. The holder of a marketing authorisation may not communicate information relating to pharmacovigilance concerns to the general public in relation to its authorised medicinal product without giving prior or simultaneous notification to the Agency.

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* Pro-active help to customer DGs in formulating their needs. In its areas of competence, the JRC could alert the DGs on consequences of ST evolution in respect of their sectoral policies, thus promoting the incorporation of novel ST concepts, issues and techniques into policy-making at an early stage.