Diagram illustrating the organisation of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities from 6 October 2000 to 6 October 2003.

Diagram illustrating the organisation of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities from 6 October 2003 to 30 April 2004.

Diagram illustrating the organisation of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities from 1 May 2004 to 5 October 2005.

Diagram showing the organisation of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities from 6 October 2005 to 31 December 2006, including the European Union Civil Service Tribunal.

Diagram illustrating the organisation of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities since 1 January 2007, including the European Union Civil Service Tribunal.

On 10 December 1952, in Luxembourg, the first seven judges at the Court of Justice of the ECSC are sworn in. One after the other, they swear to perform their duties impartially and conscientiously and not to divulge the confidential substance of their deliberations.

List of the Members of the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community taking up office on 4 December 1952.

On 10 December 1952, Judges of the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) hold their first sitting in Luxembourg. From left to right: Charles Léon Hammes, Adrianus van Kleffens, Petrus Josephus Servatius Serrarens, Massimo Pilotti, Otto Riese, Jacques Rueff and Louis Delvaux.

The Members of the Court of Justice of the European Communities take the oath on 7 October 1958, in Luxembourg.

In the course of an interview with the CVCE in November 2003, Pierre Pescatore, Judge in the Court of Justice of the European Communities from 1967 to 1985, recalls the circumstances of his appointment.

In an interview granted to the CVCE in November 2003, Pierre Pescatore, former Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, reveals his reasons for leaving the Court in 1985 at the age of 65.

Council Decision of 1 January 1973 adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Communities. By virtue of this Decision, the Court of Justice comprises nine Judges.

Council Decision of 1 January 1973 increasing the number of Advocates General. By this Decision, the number of Advocates General assisting the Court is increased from three to four.

Council Decision of 30 March 1981 increasing the number of Judges at the Court of Justice (81/208/Euratom, ECSC, EEC).

Council Decision of 30 March 1981 increasing the number of Advocates General at the Court of Justice (81/209/Euratom, ECSC, EEC).

From January 1995 to April 2004, the Court of Justice comprises 15 Judges, 8 Advocates General (9 until 6 October 2000) and a Registrar. It sits in chambers or in plenary session.

Pierre Pescatore, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities from 1967 to 1985, recalls the first two enlargements of the Communities and analyses the impact on the Court’s working methods of the arrival of new Judges with totally different legal backgrounds.

Curricula vitae of the Members of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Group photo of the 36 Members of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

List of Members of the Court of Justice of the European Union by order of precedence for the period beginning 7 October 2010.

List of former Members of the Court of Justice (Judges, Advocates General and Registrars) since its constitution.

Curricula vitae of the Members of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.

Group photo of the 28 Members of the General Court of the EU.

List of the Members of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities according to the order of precedence laid down for the period from 20 September 2007 to 31 August 2008.

List of former Members of the Court of First Instance (Judges and Registrars) since its constitution.

The judges of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal are appointed by the Council acting unanimously, after consulting a committee comprising seven persons chosen from among former members of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance and lawyers of recognised competence. The Council Decision of 18 January 2005 lays down the operating rules of this committee.

Curricula vitae of the Members of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal.

Group photo of the Members of the Civil Service Tribunal. From left to right: Judges Sean Van Raepenbusch (BE), Horstpeter Kreppel (DE) and Haris Tagaras (EL); President Paul J. Mahoney (UK); Judges Stéphane Gervasoni (FR), Irena Boruta (PL) and Maria Isabel Rofes i Pujol (ES) and Registrar Waltraud Hakenberg (DE).

List of Members of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal by order of precedence for the period beginning 30 November 2005.

Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty establishing the European Community and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community adopted at Nice on 26 February 2001 and amended by Council Decision of 15 July 2003.

Consolidated version of the Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty establishing the European Community and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community adopted at Nice on 26 February 2001 and last amended by Council Decision of 19 April 2004.

Consolidated version of the Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty establishing the European Community and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, adopted in Nice on 26 February 2001 and last amended by the Council Decision of 3 October 2005.

Consolidated version of the Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty establishing the European Community and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community adopted at Nice on 26 February 2001 and last amended by Article 11 of the Act concerning the conditions of accession of Bulgaria and Romania of 25 April 2005.

Consolidated version of the Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty establishing the European Community and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, adopted in Nice on 26 February 2001 and last amended by Council Decision of 20 December 2007.