8.1.3 Decisions issued in written proceedings

It is the boards' settled case law that a party's announcement that it will not be attending scheduled oral proceedings is to be treated as equivalent to a withdrawal of its request for those proceedings (see e.g. T 3/90, OJ 1992, 737). In such cases, the oral proceedings can be cancelled (see also T 166/17) and a decision can be issued in written proceedings under Art. 12(8) RPBA 2020 (T 2646/16).