Designation of Presidents of Chambers and assignment of Judges to Chambers
Date: 2001-10-13
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: General Court (EU), member of the Court of Justice (EU), ordinary court of law, president of an institution

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Official Journal of the European Communities

13.10.2001

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Election of the President of the Court of First Instance

b)

to assign the Members of the Court of First Instance
to Chambers as follows:

(2001/C 289/56)

The Judges of the Court of First Instance, meeting on 19 Sep-
tember 2001, elected Judge Bo Vesterdorf as President of the
Court of First Instance, pursuant to Article 7 of the Rules of
for the period from 19 September 2001 to
Procedure,
31 August 2004.

Appointment of the Registrar of the Court of First
Instance

(2001/C 289/57)

At its meeting on 19 September 2001 the Court of First
Instance appointed Hans Jung as Registrar of the Court of
First Instance, pursuant to Article 20 in conjunction with
Article 7(3) of the Rules of Procedure, for the period from
27 September 2001 to 26 September 2007.

to the First Chamber:

Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Forwood and Mr Legal,
Judges;

to the First Chamber, Extended Composition:

Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Lenaerts, Mr Azizi, Mr For-
wood and Mr Legal, Judges;

to the Second Chamber:

Mr Moura Ramos (President of Chamber), Mr Pirrung and
Mr Meij, Judges;

to the Second Chamber, Extended Composition:

Mr Moura Ramos (President of Chamber), Ms Tiili,
Mr Pirrung, Mr Mengozzi and Mr Meij, Judges;

to the Third Chamber:

Mr Jaeger (President of Chamber), Mr Lenaerts and
Mr Azizi, Judges;

to the Third Chamber, Extended Composition:

Designation of Presidents of Chambers and assignment of
Judges to Chambers

Mr Jaeger (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı´a-Valdecasas,
Mr Lenaerts, Ms Lindh and Mr Azizi, Judges;

(2001/C 289/58)

to the Fourth Chamber:

At its plenary conference held on 20 September 2001 the
Court of First Instance decided, pursuant to Article 2(4) of the
Council Decision of 24 October 1988 and Articles 10 and 15
of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, in
respect of the period from 20 September 2001 to 30 Septem-
ber 2002:

Mr Vilaras (President of Chamber), Ms Tiili and Mr Men-
gozzi, Judges;

to the Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition:

Mr Vilaras (President of Chamber), Ms Tiili, Mr Pirrung,
Mr Mengozzi and Mr Meij, Judges;

a)

to designate as Presidents of Chambers:

to the Fifth Chamber:

— Judge Moura Ramos

— Judge Cooke

— Judge Jaeger

— Judge Vilaras

Mr Cooke (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı´a-Valdecasas
and Ms Lindh, Judges;

to the Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition:

Mr Cooke (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı´a-Valdecasas,
Ms Lindh, Mr Forwood and Mr Legal, Judges.

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Cases pending before the present Chambers have been reallo-
cated with effect from 20 September 2001 to the Chamber,
composed of the same number of Judges, of which the Judge-
Rapporteur in each particular case is a member.

c)

the other cases referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall be
assigned to the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Chambers. Such assignment is to be effected on the
basis of three separate rotas, reflecting the order in
which the cases are registered at the Court Registry:

However,
for cases in which the written procedure was
completed and a hearing in the oral procedure was held or
fixed before 20 September 2001, the Chambers shall continue
to sit with the same composition as before for the oral
procedure, the deliberation and the judgment.

— for the cases referred to in Article 236 of the
EC Treaty and Article 152 of the EAEC Treaty,

— for the cases concerning the implementation
the rules on competition applicable to

of
undertakings,

— for the other cases covered by paragraph 1(b).

Criteria for assigning cases to the Chambers

At its plenary conference held on 20 September 2001 the
Court of First Instance established the following criteria for the
assignment of cases to the Chambers for the period from
20 September 2001 to 30 September 2002, pursuant to
Article 12 of the Rules of Procedure:

1.

a) Actions concerning the implementation of the rules
on State aid or the rules on trade protection
measures shall be assigned, with effect from the
lodging of the application and without prejudice to
any subsequent application of Articles 14 and 51 of
the Rules of Procedure,
to Chambers with an
extended composition of five Judges.

For the purposes of the rota referred to in the first indent of
paragraph 2(c) above, the assignment of cases concerning
intellectual property to the Second and Fourth Chambers on
the basis of the rota referred to in paragraph 2(b) shall be
compensated for by the assignment of cases to the First, Third
and Fifth Chambers on a pro rata basis.

For the purposes of the rotas referred to in paragraphs 2(a)
and 2(c), the First Chamber and the First Chamber, Extended
Composition, presided over by the President of the Court of
First Instance, shall not be included in those lists every third
time the end of a rota is reached.

The President of the Court of First Instance may derogate from
that order on the ground that cases are related or with a view
to ensuring an even spread of the workload.

b) All other cases shall be assigned, with effect from
the lodging of the application and without prejudice
to any subsequent application of Articles 14 and 51
of the Rules of Procedure, to Chambers composed
of three Judges.

Plenary session

2.

The cases referred to in paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b) shall be
allocated between the Chambers as follows:

a)

b)

the cases referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall be
assigned in turn, according to the order in which
they are registered at the Court Registry, to the First,
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Chambers, Extended
Composition;

cases concerning intellectual property, as referred to
in Article 130(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the
Court of First Instance, shall be assigned, according
to the order in which they are registered at the Court
Registry, to the Second and Fourth Chambers;

At its plenary conference held on 20 September 2001, the
Court of First
to the second
Instance decided pursuant
subparagraph of Article 32(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the
Court of First Instance that where, following the designation
of an Advocate General pursuant to Article 17 of the Rules of
Procedure, there is an even number of Judges in the Court of
First Instance sitting in plenary session, the rota established in
advance in accordance with which the President of the Court
is to designate the Judge who will not take part in the judgment
of the case shall be in reverse order to that in which the Judges
rank according to their seniority in office under Article 6 of
the Rules of Procedure unless the Judge who would thus be
designated is the Judge-Rapporteur. In that event, it shall be
the Judge ranking immediately above him who shall be
designated.