Article 1 
A judicial panel shall be attached to the Court of First Instance of the European Communities to hear disputes involving the European Union civil service and shall be known as the ‘European Union Civil Service Tribunal’. The European Union Civil Service Tribunal shall have its headquarters at the Court of First Instance.
Article 2 
The Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice shall be amended as follows: 1. the following Title shall be inserted: ‘TITLE IVa JUDICIAL PANELS 
‘Article 62a
The provisions relating to the jurisdiction, composition, organisation and procedure of the judicial panels established under Articles 225a of the EC Treaty and 140b of the EAEC Treaty are set out in an Annex to this Statute.’; 2. Annex I, as set out in the Annex to this Decision, shall be added.
Article 3 
1. The first President of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal shall be appointed for three years in the same manner as its judges, unless the Council decides that the procedure laid down in Article 4(1) of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice, as set out in the Annex to this Decision, shall be applied. 2. Immediately after all the judges of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal have taken oath, the President of the Council shall choose by lot three judges of the Tribunal whose duties are to end, by way of derogation from the first sentence of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Annex I to the Statute of the Court, upon expiry of the first three years of their term of office. 3. Cases referred to in Article 1 of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice of which the Court of First Instance is seised on the date on which that Article enters into force but in which the written procedure provided for in Article 52 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance has not yet been completed shall be referred to the European Union Civil Service Tribunal. 4. Until the entry into force of its rules of procedure, the European Union Civil Service Tribunal shall apply mutatis mutandis the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, except for the provisions concerning a single judge.
Article 4 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union , with the exception of Article 1 of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice, as set out in the Annex to this Decision.