6.1. Fixing or changing the date for oral proceedings
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6.1.4 Reasons submitted in a request for postponement

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d) Business trips 

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Point 2.3 of the 2008 Notice lists "business trips which have been firmly booked before the notification of the summons to oral proceedings" as a serious reason for changing the date of oral proceedings.

Concerning appeal proceedings, the board in T 869/06 accepted such a reason for changing the date of oral proceedings. However, in T 1080/99 (OJ 2002, 568) the board rejected a request to postpone oral proceedings due to a business trip.

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