Application Timeline
When to file an application
1. In the event of the joint body's recommendations being
favourable an application to the Tribunal may filed within
90 days reckoned from the date of the communication of such
rejection if the Secretary-General:
(a) has rejected the recommendations;
(b) failed to take any action within thirty days
following the communication of the opinion;
(c) failed to carry out the recommendations within
thirty days following the communication of the joint body's
opinion.
2. In the event that the recommendations made by the joint
body are unfavourable to the applicant, an application may
be filed:
(a) either within 90 days reckoned from the date
of the communication of the joint body's opinion containing
recommendations unfavourable to the applicant; or
(b) within 90 days reckoned from the date of the
communication of their acceptance by the Secretary-General.
An application shall not be receivable if the joint body
unanimously considers that it is frivolous.
3. In the event that the Secretary-General and the applicant
have agreed to submit the application directly to the
Tribunal in accordance with the option given to them under
article 7, paragraph 1, of the Statute, the filing shall
take place within 90 days of the date on which the
Secretary-General notifies the applicant of his agreement to
direct submission. |