Assignment of Judges to Chambers and composition of the Grand Chamber
Date: 2004-06-26
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: General Court (EU), member of the Court of Justice (EU), ordinary court of law, president of an institution

26.6.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 168/5

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Assignment of Judges to Chambers and composition of
the Grand Chamber

to the Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five
Judges:

(2004/C 168/09)

The Court of First Instance decided, at its Plenary Meeting on
13 May 2004, following the entry into office as Judges of Ms
Cremona, Mr Czúcz, Ms Wiszniewska-Białecka, Ms Pelikánová,
Mr Šváby, Mr Vadapalas, Ms Jürimäe, Ms Labucka and Mr Papa-
savvas and the amendment of 21 April 2004 of Article 10(1)
of the Rules of Procedure, to amend its decision of 2 July 2003
on the assignment of Judges to Chambers and on the composi-
tion of the Grand Chamber, as follows:

The following are appointed for the period from 13 May
2004 to 31 August 2004

to the First Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Legal, President of Chamber, Ms Tiili, Mr Vilaras, Ms Wisz-
niewska-Białecka and Mr Vadapalas, Judges;

to the Fifth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Ms Lindh, President of Chamber, Mr García-Valdecasas, Mr
Cooke, Mr Šváby and Ms Jürimäe, Judges;

to the Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Mr Vesterdorf, President, Mr Mengozzi, Ms Martins Ribeiro and
Ms Labucka, Judges;

Ms Lindh, President of Chamber, Mr García-Valdecasas, Mr
Cooke, Mr Šváby and Ms Jürimäe, Judges.

to the First Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Mr Vesterdorf, President, Mr Jaeger, Mr Mengozzi, Ms Martins
Ribeiro, Mr Dehousse and Ms Labucka, Judges;

to the Second Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Pirrung, President of Chamber, Mr Meij, Mr Forwood, Ms
Pelikánová and Mr Papasavvas, Judges;

to the Second Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five
Judges:

Mr Pirrung, President of Chamber, Mr Meij, Mr Forwood, Ms
Pelikánová and Mr Papasavvas, Judges;

to the Third Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Azizi, President of Chamber, Mr Jaeger, Mr Dehousse, Ms
Cremona and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

to the Third Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Mr Azizi, President of Chamber, Mr Jaeger, Mr Dehousse, Ms
Cremona and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

to the Fourth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Legal, President of Chamber, Ms Tiili, Mr Vilaras, Ms Wisz-
niewska-Białecka and Mr Vadapalas, Judges;

Where any of
those Chambers is composed of a greater
number of Judges than that with which it sits under Article
10(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance,
the President of Chamber shall designate, when the preliminary
report referred to in Article 52 of the Rules of Procedure is
presented, the Judge or Judges other than the Judge Rapporteur
who will not take part in the proceedings, by rota for each
case, taking account of the seniority in office of the Judges
attached to the Chamber, as provided for by Article 6 of the
Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance.

The Grand Chamber shall be composed, for the period from 1
June 2004 to 31 August 2004, of President Vesterdorf, Judges
Lindh, Azizi, Pirrung and Legal, Presidents of Chamber, the
Judges of the Extended Composition Chamber, who would
have had to hear the case in question if it had been assigned to
a Chamber composed of five Judges, and of four other Judges
nominated by the President of the Court of First Instance in
turn from among the Judges of each of the other Chambers in
order of their seniority in office under Article 6 of the Rules of
Procedure of the Court of First Instance.

With regard to cases in which the written procedure was
completed and a hearing for the oral procedure held or fixed
before 13 May 2004, the Chambers shall continue to sit with
the same composition as before for the oral procedure, the
deliberations and the judgment.