Election of a President of a Chamber of three Judges
Date: 2006-08-12
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: General Court (EU), appointment of staff, member of the Court of Justice (EU)

C 190/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

12.8.2006

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Election of a President of a Chamber of three Judges

Fourth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

(2006/C 190/23)

Mr Legal, President of Chamber

On 5 July 2006, the Court of First Instance elected, in accord-
ance with Article 15(3) of the Rules of Procedure, Judge Cooke
as President of a Chamber of three Judges for the period from
1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007.

Assignment of Judges to the Chambers

(2006/C 190/24)

On 5 July 2006, the Court of First Instance decided to establish
five Chambers of five Judges and five Chambers of three Judges
for the period from 1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007 and to
assign Judges to them as follows:

First Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Mr Vesterdorf, President, Mr Cooke, Mr García-Valdecasas, Ms
Labucka and Ms Trstenjak, Judges;

First Chamber, sitting with three judges:

Mr Cooke, President of Chamber, Mr García-Valdecasas, Ms
Labucka and Ms Trstenjak, Judges;

Second Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five
Judges:

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

Second Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Pirrung, President of Chamber

(a) Mr Meij and Ms Pelikánová, Judges;

(b) Mr Forwood and Mr Papasavvas, Judges;

Third Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Jaeger, President of Chamber, Ms Tiili, Mr Azizi, Ms

Mr
Cremona and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

Third Chamber, sitting with three judges:

Mr Jaeger, President of Chamber

(a) Ms Tiili and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

(b) Mr Azizi and Ms Cremona, Judges;

Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition,
judges:

sitting with five

Mr Legal, President of Chamber, Ms Lindh, Ms Wiszniewska-
Białecka, Mr Vadapalas and Mr Moavero Milanesi, Judges;

(a) Ms Lindh and Mr Vadapalas, Judges;

(b) Ms Wiszniewska-Białecka and Mr Moavero Milanesi, Judges;

Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five judges:

Mr Vilaras, President of Chamber, Ms Martins Ribeiro, Mr
Dehousse, Mr Šváby and Ms Jürimäe, Judges;

Fifth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Vilaras, President of Chamber

(a) Ms Martins Ribeiro and Ms Jürimäe, Judges;

(b) Mr Dehousse and Mr Šváby, Judges.

In the First Chamber sitting with three Judges, the Judges who
sit with the President of the Chamber to make up the Chamber
will be designated in turn, in the order provided for by Article
6 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance,
subject to the presence of connected cases. In the Second to
Fifth Chambers sitting with three Judges, the President of the
Chamber will sit either with the Judges referred to at (a) above
or with those referred to at (b) above, depending on which of
those formations the Judge-Rapporteur belongs to. For cases in
which the President of the Chamber is the Judge-Rapporteur,
the President of the Chamber will sit with the Judges of one or
other of those formations alternately in accordance with the
order in which the cases are registered, subject to the presence
of connected cases.

In cases where the written procedure was completed and a
hearing in the oral procedure was held or fixed before 1
October 2006, the First Chamber sitting with three Judges shall
continue to sit with the same composition as previously for the
oral procedure, the deliberation and the judgment.

Composition of the Grand Chamber

Instance,

the Presidents of

the Court of First

On 5 July 2006 the Court of First Instance decided, in accord-
ance with Article 10(1) of the Rules of Procedure, that for the
period from 1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007 the 13 Judges
of whom the Grand Chamber is composed shall be the Presi-
the
dent of
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Chambers, Extended Composi-
tions, the Judges of the Chamber, Extended Composition, who
would have had to hear the case in question if it had been
assigned to a Chamber composed of five Judges, and as many
other Judges as necessary to complete the Grand Chamber,
designated by the President of the Court of First Instance, from
among the Judges of each of the other Chambers, in the order
of precedence of those Judges within their Chambers according
to seniority in office under Article 6 of the Rules of Procedure
of the Court of First Instance,
in a rota applied during the
period of three years for which the Presidents of the Chambers
composed of five Judges are elected.