CELEX: 22020D2251
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 7/2020 of the Joint Committee established by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of 22 December 2020 establishing a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Agreement [2020/2251]

30.12.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 443/22
               
            
         DECISION No 7/2020 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY THE AGREEMENT ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY
         of 22 December 2020
         establishing a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel under the Agreement [2020/2251]
         THE JOINT COMMITTEE,
         Having regard to the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (1) (the ‘Withdrawal Agreement’), and in particular Article 171(1) thereof,
         Whereas:
         
                     (1)
                  
                  
                     Pursuant to Article 171(1) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the Joint Committee shall, no later than by the end of the transition period set under that Agreement, establish a list of 25 persons who are willing and able to serve as members of an arbitration panel,
                  
               
                     (2)
                  
                  
                     Pursuant to Article 171(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement, the list shall only comprise persons whose independence is beyond doubt, who possess the qualifications required for appointment to the highest judicial office in their respective countries or who are jurisconsults of recognised competence, and who possess specialised knowledge or experience of Union law and public international law. These persons shall not be members, officials or other servants of the Union institutions, of the government of a Member State, or of the government of the United Kingdom,
                  
               
                     (3)
                  
                  
                     In view of the joint proposal by the Union and the United Kingdom of five persons for the function of chairperson of the arbitration panel, and the respective proposals by the Union and the United Kingdom of ten persons each for the function of members of the arbitration panel,
                  
               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
         
            Article 1
            The list of 25 persons willing and able to serve as arbitrators under the Withdrawal Agreement is set out in Annex I.
         
         
            Article 2
            This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2021.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 22 December 2020.
            
               
                  For the Joint Committee
               
               
                  The Co-chairs
               
               Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ
               Michael GOVE
            
         
         
            (1)  OJ L 29, 31.1.2020, p.7.
      
      
         
            ANNEX I
            to Decision No 7/2020 of the Joint Committee
            Chairpersons for the Withdrawal Agreement Arbitration Panel
            
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Corinna WISSELS
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Angelika Helene Anna NUSSBERGER
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Jan KLUCKA
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Daniel BETHLEHEM
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Gabrielle KAUFMANN-KOHLER
                     
                  Ordinary members for the Withdrawal Agreement Arbitration Panel
            EU:
            
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Hubert LEGAL
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Helena JÄDERBLOM
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Ursula KRIEBAUM
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Jan WOUTERS
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Christoph Walter HERRMANN
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Javier DIEZ-HOCHLEITNER
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Alice GUIMARAES-PUROKOSKI
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Barry DOHERTY
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Tamara ĆAPETA
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Nico SCHRIJVER
                     
                  UK:
            
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Gerald BARLING
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Christopher BELLAMY
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Zachary DOUGLAS
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Patrick ELIAS
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Dame Elizabeth GLOSTER
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Peter GROSS
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Toby LANDAU QC
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Mr Dan SAROOSHI QC
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Ms Jemima STRATFORD QC
                     
                  
                         
                     
                     
                        Sir Michael WOOD