Translation of "Mündlich vortragen" in English

The Director or his or her representative, and the appellant shall attend the proceedings.

The Director or his representative, together with the appellant, shall attend the proceedings and may make oral statements in support of the grounds adduced in their memorandums.

Mr Karas and I have prepared amendments which he will lay out tomorrow orally, which I hope will solve this problem.

The Appeals Board shall hear the parties and such witnesses as it deems may usefully depose in the proceedings.

The rapporteur intends to set out her views orally on the issues raised by the Czech Presidency, but awaits the contribution of the first study group meeting, and the planned hearing that will follow, before framing the Committee's response.

VISA is now given the opportunity to address the Commission’s concerns within a three-month deadline and can also set out its point of view in an oral hearing.

My colleague, Mr Narjes, who is responsible for this issue, will in any case present before the Council orally those amendments which have in the meantime been accepted by the Commission.

For reasons connected with the proper conduct of the hearing, the oral submissions of the parties or the interested persons present at the hearing must, as regards each of them, be made by a single person.

On the other hand, as the Legal Board of Appeal has mentioned in its decision of referral, if former members of the boards of appeal appear and make oral submissions on behalf of parties to proceedings before the EPO, especially before the board of appeal, the public may believe that parties on whose behalf former board of appeal members make submissions may have an unfair advantage, in that the boards of appeal may be suspected of being inclined to favour submissions made by such former members.

A party might feel that it could present its case better orally than in writing, even if it had no new arguments.

However, the submissions which have been made in the present case on behalf of the proprietor, and which are summarised in paragraphs IV and VI above, do not only put in question whether an "accompanying unqualified person" can make legal submissions during oral proceedings before the EPO, but also put in question whether such a person can make oral technical submissions during such proceedings.

In T 383/87 the board pointed out that Art. 116(1) EPC 1973 guaranteed the right of any party to request oral proceedings, i.e. to argue its case orally before the relevant department of the EPO.

In accordance with the principles set out in paragraph 2 above, if a party wishes that a former member of the boards of appeal should make oral submissions on its behalf at oral proceedings before a board of appeal, in addition to the complete presentation of the party's case by the professional representative, the professional representative should request permission from the board of appeal for such oral submissions to be presented, in advance of the oral proceedings.

Mr President, according to the voting list at this point there was supposed to be an oral amendment presented by a member of the GUE/NGL Group who unfortunately is not here.