4.3.2 Transitional provisions
In J 12/18 the statement of grounds of appeal had been filed before 1 January 2020 but new submissions (concerning the protection of legitimate expectation) were filed during the oral proceedings which took place after this date. The Legal Board held that Art. 12(4) to (6) RPBA 2020 applied in accordance with Art. 25(1) RPBA 2020 because the exception in Art. 25(2) RPBA 2020 only covered submissions in the statement of grounds of appeal, but not subsequent submissions in the appeal proceedings. Moreover, Art. 13(1) RPBA 2020, which referred to Art. 12(4) to (6) RPBA 2020, applied in accordance with Art. 25(1) RPBA 2020 (see also the parallel decisions J 13/18, J 14/18; in the parallel case J 3/20, Art. 12(4) to (6) RPBA 2020 applied according to Art. 25(1) and (2) RPBA 2020).