Article 47

Where an application or other procedural document addressed to the Court of First Instance is  lodged by mistake with the Registrar of the Court of Justice it shall be transmitted  immediately by that Registrar to the Registrar of the Court of First Instance; likewise, where  an application or other procedural document addressed to the Court of Justice is lodged by  mistake with the Registrar of the Court of First Instance, it shall be transmitted immediately  by that Registrar to the Registrar of the Court of Justice.

Where the Court of First Instance finds that it does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine  an action in respect of which the Court of Justice has jurisdiction, it shall refer that action to  the Court of Justice; likewise, where the Court of Justice finds that an action falls within the  jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance, it shall refer that action to the Court of First  Instance, whereupon that Court may not decline jurisdiction.

Where the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance are seised of cases in which the  same relief is sought, the same issue of interpretation is raised or the validity of the same act  is called in question, the Court of First Instance may, after hearing the parties, stay the  proceedings before it until such time as the Court of Justice shall have delivered judgment.  Where applications are made for the same act to be declared void, the Court of First Instance  may also decline jurisdiction in order that the Court of Justice may rule on such applications.  In the cases referred to in this subparagraph, the Court of Justice may also decide to stay the  proceedings before it; in that event, the proceedings before the Court of First Instance shall  continue.

Article 48

Final decisions of the Court of First Instance, decisions disposing of the substantive issues in  part only, or disposing of a procedural issue concerning a plea of lack of competence or  inadmissibility, shall be notified by the Registrar of the Court of First Instance to all parties as  well as all Member States and the Community institutions even if they did not intervene in the  case before the Court of First Instance.

Appeals to the Court of Justice

Article 49

An appeal may be brought before the Court of Justice, within two months of the notification  of the decision appealed against, against final decisions of the Court of First Instance and  decisions of that Court disposing of the substantive issues in part only, or disposing of a  procedural issue concerning a plea of lack of competence or inadmissibility.

Such an appeal may be brought by any party, which has been unsuccessful, in whole or in  part, in its submissions. However, interveners other than the Member States and the  Community institutions may bring such an appeal only where the decision of the Court of  First Instance directly affects them.

With the exception of cases relating to disputes between the Community and its servants, an  appeal may also be brought by Member States and Community institutions, which did not

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