Article 59

1.   The parties to proceedings shall be summoned to oral proceedings provided for in Article 77 of the basic Regulation and their attention shall be drawn to paragraph 2 hereof. At least one month’s notice of the summons dispatched to the parties to proceedings shall be given unless the parties to proceedings and the Office agree on a shorter period.

2.   If a party to proceedings who has duly been summoned to oral proceedings before the Office does not appear as summoned, the proceedings may continue without him.