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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-824/annex-X/division-APPEALS/division-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/824",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/824 of 15 May 2017 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Union Satellite Centre",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-824",
  "path": "annex/X/division/APPEALS/division/5",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Preliminary procedure",
  "text": "(a) Appeals shall be transmitted immediately to the Director, who must make his comments thereon in writing. A copy of those comments shall, within one month from the notification of the appeal to the Director or his representative, be communicated to the Secretary of the Appeals Board, and to the appellant. The latter may within 20 working days from notification to him or his legal representative, make a reply in writing, a copy of which shall be immediately notified to the Director or his representative by the Secretary of the Appeals Board.\n(b) Appeals, together with the written pleadings and the documentary evidence in support thereof, the comments of the Director and the appellant's reply, if any, shall be communicated to the members of the Appeals Board by its Secretariat within three months of the lodging of the appeal and at least 15 days before the date of the audience at which they are to be considered.\n(c) The Appeals Board may undertake all enquiries which it deems necessary, and may in particular request the parties to produce all documents and to supply all information which it considers desirable for the proceedings.\n(d) The Appeals Board may furthermore at any time engage a person or body of its own choice to produce an expert opinion.\n(e) All parties may propose to the Appeals Board to call witnesses and may submit other appropriate forms of evidence. Staff members, if so requested by the Appeals Board, shall appear before it and give evidence and testify.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/824/annex/X/division/APPEALS/division/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:30.055725+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}