Composition, structure, and procedure

7 important questions on Composition, structure, and procedure

The secrecy surrounding the appointment procedures and the political nature of the appointments has been addressed by the Lisbon Treaty. The amended appointments procedure requires that what?

That an advisory panel comprising members of the Court, members of the national supreme courts, and prominent lawyers, one of whom is proposed by the EP, gives an opinion on the suitability of each candidate.

The procedure before the ECJ has two stages. Which two stages?

A written and an oral stage.

The written stage is the most important, comprising what?

Comprising the application to the Court, the submission of the documents supporting the application, the defences, the communication to the parties of relevant documents, and the statements of case.
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What happens in the oral stage?

In the oral stage, which takes place in open court, the judge assigned to the case presents to the Court a report containing a summary of the facts and the arguments of the parties. At that point, the legal representatives of the parties may make oral submissions to the Court. The oral stage also includes examination of any witnesses or experts, as well as the delivery of the opinion of the AG.

The Treaty of Nice gave the EGC an independent status and more cases were transferred to it, such as what?

The right to decide on certain preliminary rulings.

Preliminary ruling (procedure) = An judgment of the ECJ that arises as a response to a question of European law posed in a domestic court.

Unlike the ECJ, its (ik: = de EGC) cases do not involve sensitive political and constitutional issues. This allows the EGC to focus more on what?

On purely legal issues and fact finding.

Why was the European Civil Service Tribunal created in 2004?

To reduce the workload of the EGC by relieving it of cases involving the EU's administration (including, for example, Commission officials).

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