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The President of the Court of Appeal dismissed an anonymous applicant's petition for review of the Registrar's decision rejecting his application to be entered on the list of UPC representatives. The Registrar had rejected the application because it was filed outside the one-year transition period from the entry into force of the UPCA on 1 June 2023, as required by R. 12.1 EPLC Rules. The President held that the one-year time period is not discriminatory and that the applicant's 'Kandidatenkurs Fischbachau' certificate qualified under R. 12.1(a) but was submitted outside the permitted timeframe.