Article 270. Response to the complaint for appeal (protest)

A person participating in the case, when receiving a copy of the complaint for appeal (protest), is entitled to direct a response to it to the court not later than twenty days from the day of the issuance of the ruling on the acceptance of the complaint for appeal (protest) to proceedings, ensuring arrival of the response by the day of consideration of the complaint for appeal (protest), and send copies of the response to other persons participating in the case.

The response to the complaint for appeal (protest) shall be signed by the person participating in the case or his representative. The response signed by the representative shall be accompanied by a power of attorney confirming his powers to conduct the case.

The response to the complaint for appeal (protest) may be accompanied by the documents that have been submitted earlier. In this case, the response shall be accompanied by evidence of sending to the other persons participating in the case of copies of those documents that they don't have.