Key legal question
Whether the public law appeal was admissible despite the parallel reform appeal and subsidiarity rules.
Extracted holding
The court refused to depart from the normal rule that the reform appeal is decided first; the public law appeal did not justify priority treatment.
Extracted reasoning
A deviation from Art. 57 al. 5 OJ is justified only in very restrictive circumstances, which were not met. Costs of unnecessary proceedings remain chargeable to the party who caused them.