The respondent to the appeal has a period of two months from the service of the appellant’s statement of case to submit to the registry of the Cour de cassation a statement in response signed by a lawyer at the Conseil d’Etat and at the Cour de cassation and to notify it to the appellant’s lawyer in the form of notifications between lawyers.
The period provided for in the preceding paragraph is prescribed on pain of inadmissibility, pronounced ex officio, of the statement in response.