Translation of "grief d'interprétation " (French → English) :

97 (1) If a grievance relates to the interpretation or application of a provision of a collective agreement or an arbitral award, the party referring the grievance to adjudication shall, before or at the hearing, provide a copy of the collective agreement or the arbitral award to the adjudicator, the other party or its representative, if any, and intervenors and, if notice to the Canadian Human Rights Commission was given under subsection 210(1), 217(1) or 222(1) of the Act, to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

It states that an adjudicator in such a policy grievance is limited to declaring that the collective agreement was contravened requiring the bargaining agent or the employer to interpret the collective agreement in a certain specified manner.

Misinterpretation and misapplication of Article 31 of Regulation No 1290/2005 and of the guidelines in Document VΙ/553O/1997, since (a) the criticisms which the Commission relies on in relation to the criteria for the allocation of the national reserve even if assumed to be correct did not lead to the payment of sums to persons not entitled and did not create the risk of loss for the EAGF and (b) the criticisms in question are not linked to the failure to apply a key control and therefore do not justify the imposition of a flat-rate correction of 10%.

In support of the appeal, the appellant relies on a certain number of grounds of appeal relating to paragraphs 35, 36, 44, 45, 56, 57, 69, 70, 71, 77, 78, 86, 95 and 96 of the judgment under appeal, alleging breach of the rights of the defence and infringement of the principle of prohibition of arbitrary action, since the Civil Service Tribunal distorted and misinterpreted the facts and misread and misinterpreted the application at first instance and the contested decision.

Erroneous interpretation and infringement of the principles of good administration and of legal certainty on account of deficient reasoning in the judgment under appeal in the section concerning the obligation to state reasons for unfavourable administrative acts adopted by institutions of the European Union.

I granted an additional one-week extension to certain Asian addressees of the SO on the ground that in preparation of their defence they needed to translate key documents and involve interpreters in communication with their outside lawyers.