# C_2016296EN.01000203.xml

| 16.8.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 296/2 |
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16.8.2016

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 296/2

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Criteria for the assignment of cases to Chambers

(2016/C 296/04)

At its plenum on 11 May 2016, the General Court laid down, in accordance with Article 25 of the Rules of Procedure, the following criteria for the assignment of cases to Chambers:

| 1. | Appeals against decisions of the Civil Service Tribunal shall be assigned as soon as possible after the application has been lodged, without prejudice to any subsequent application of Article 28 of the Rules of Procedure, to the Appeal Chamber composed of the members of that chamber still in office after 19 September 2016, irrespective of their capacity as President, Vice-President or President of a Chamber. |
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Appeals against decisions of the Civil Service Tribunal shall be assigned as soon as possible after the application has been lodged, without prejudice to any subsequent application of Article 28 of the Rules of Procedure, to the Appeal Chamber composed of the members of that chamber still in office after 19 September 2016, irrespective of their capacity as President, Vice-President or President of a Chamber.

| 2. | Cases other than those referred to in paragraph 1 shall be assigned to Chambers of three Judges as soon as possible after the application has been lodged and without prejudice to any subsequent application of Article 28 of the Rules of Procedure.
  The cases referred to in this paragraph shall be allocated to the Chambers in turn, in accordance with the date on which they are registered at the Registry, following four separate rotas:






  — | for cases concerning application of the competition rules applicable to undertakings, the rules on State aid and the rules on trade protection measures; |
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Cases other than those referred to in paragraph 1 shall be assigned to Chambers of three Judges as soon as possible after the application has been lodged and without prejudice to any subsequent application of Article 28 of the Rules of Procedure.

The cases referred to in this paragraph shall be allocated to the Chambers in turn, in accordance with the date on which they are registered at the Registry, following four separate rotas:

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for cases concerning application of the competition rules applicable to undertakings, the rules on State aid and the rules on trade protection measures;

| — | for cases concerning intellectual property rights referred to in Title IV of the Rules of Procedure; |
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for cases concerning intellectual property rights referred to in Title IV of the Rules of Procedure;

| — | for civil service cases; |
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for civil service cases;

| — | for all other cases.
  The President of the General Court may derogate from these rotas in order to take account of a connection between cases or with a view to ensuring an even spread of the workload. |
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for all other cases.

The President of the General Court may derogate from these rotas in order to take account of a connection between cases or with a view to ensuring an even spread of the workload.

In the light of the decision of the General Court, taken at its plenum on 15 June 2016, on the conduct of the activity of the General Court from 1 to 19 September 2016 (OJ C 270, 2016, p. 2), providing that the decision of the General Court of 23 September 2013 on the criteria for assigning cases to Chambers (OJ C 313, 2013, p. 4) will continue to apply between 1 and 19 September 2016, the criteria for the assignment of cases to Chambers set out above shall be laid down for the period from 20 September 2016 to 31 August 2019.

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