
Article 1 
The Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 2 May 1991 (OJ L 136, 30.5.1991, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 317, 19.11.1991, p. 34), amended on 15 September 1994 (OJ L 249, 24.9.1994, p. 17), 17 February 1995 (OJ L 44, 28.2.1995, p. 64), 6 July 1995 (OJ L 172, 22.7.1995, p. 3), 12 March 1997 (OJ L 103, 19.4.1997, p. 6, as corrected by OJ L 351, 23.12.1997, p. 72), 17 May 1999 (OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 92), 6 December 2000 (OJ L 322, 19.12.2000, p. 4), 21 May 2003 (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003, p. 22), 19 April 2004 (OJ L 132, 29.4.2004, p. 3), 21 April 2004 (OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 108), 12 October 2005 (OJ L 298, 15.11.2005, p. 1), 18 December 2006 (OJ L 386, 29.12.2006, p. 45) and 12 June 2008 (OJ L 179, 8.7.2008, p. 12), are hereby amended as follows:
before Article 137, there shall be inserted in ‘TITLE 5 — APPEALS AGAINST DECISIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL’ an Article 136a, to be worded as follows:
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Article 136a 
Without prejudice to the arrangements laid down in Article 35(2)(b) and (c) and the fourth subparagraph of Article 35(3) of these Rules, in appeals against decisions of the Civil Service Tribunal as referred to in Articles 9 and 10 of the Annex to the Statute of the Court of Justice, the language of the case shall be the language of the decision of the Civil Service Tribunal against which the appeal is brought.'
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 16 February 2009.
For the Council
The President
O. LIŠKA