Property Use Agreement Termination and Conciliation Hearing Attendance

When parties to a dispute concerning a property use agreement appeared before a conciliation authority regarding the termination of the agreement and the refusal to sign a building application, and the defendants failed to appear at the conciliation hearing after raising a defense of the authority's lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, the court held that raising an objection of incompetence does not exempt parties from the procedural obligation to attend the conciliation hearing, as the resulting cost decision is merely a sanction for non-compliance with a procedural duty and not a final ruling on the merits or the question of subject-matter jurisdiction, which was not yet ripe for decision at that preliminary stage.