5 Through two lawyers practising in Turkey, on 21 and 23 February 2006 the appellants lodged at the Registry of the Court of First Instance first a version in English and then a version in Turkish of an application for annulment of the contested decision (‘the first application’).

1. Where an application or other procedural document addressed to the Civil Service Tribunal is lodged by mistake with the Registrar of the Court of Justice or General Court, it shall be transmitted immediately by that Registrar to the Registrar of the Civil Service Tribunal.

6 Following a letter dated 21 March 2006 from the Registry of the Court of First Instance which informed them that their action could not be dealt with because for the purposes of proceedings they had to be represented by a lawyer authorised to practise before a court of a Member State of the European Union or of another State which is a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (‘the EEA Agreement’), on 6 April 2006 the appellants lodged, through Mr Ç. Şahin, a lawyer who is a member of the Düsseldorf bar (Germany), a translation in German of the English language version of the first application.

This is why, in January, we filed a motion for the $200 million, and in February, one for $4 billion.

On receipt of a request for review, the Tribunal must set a time and place for the review and must notify, in writing, the Minister and the person who filed the request (new section 17.7(1)).

On receipt of a request for review, the Tribunal must set a time and place for the review and must notify, in writing, the Minister and the person who filed the request (new section 17.7(1)).