1 Amendments of Françoise CASTEX related to 2011/0901B(COD)
Amendment 26 #
Draft regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) In order to ensure that the increase in the number of Judges of the General Court is carried out in such a way as to maintain an appropriate balance among the Member States and a sufficient degree of stability in the composition of the court, which is vital for its effectiveness, any decision should draw on the solution set out in the second paragraph of the Declaration (No 38) on Article 252 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union regarding the number of Advocates-General in the Court of Justice annexed to the final act of the intergovernmental conference which adopted the Treaty of Lisbon, signed on 13 December 2007. Six of the additional Judges should therefore be appointed from among the nationals of the six most populous Member States (one Judge per Member State). The six other additional Judges should be appointed from among the nationals of the other Member States, according to a rotation based on the principle of equality.