Activities of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2017/2138(DEC)
Reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016, Section II – European Council and Council PDF (363 KB) DOC (56 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Notes that the nomination of the Members of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is the responsibility of the Member States under Article 253 TFEU; highlights the importance of the timely nomination and appointment of judges for the performance of the CJEU; asks for a new rule setting a specific deadline for the (re)nomination of a judge well before the end of a judge’s mandate and calls on the Council to respect the cost-benefit-ratio when appointing new judges to the CJEU; criticises the irregular nomination, without a call for applications, of two judges for the Tribunal of First Instance for a mandate which moreover lasted only from 14 April 2016 until the 31 August 2016; notes with regret the costs of the taking up and the ending of one of the "4 month mandates" to the amount of 69 498,25 EUR in addition to the salary the judge received; condemns such a waste of EU taxpayers money;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Notes furthermore that the General Court (Appeal Chamber, judgment of 23 January 2018 in Case T- 639/16 P )1a considers the Second Chamber of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union with one of the "4 month mandate" judges as an irregular one, which makes void this and all further legal acts of the Second Chamber in that composition; asks the CJEU which legal acts of the Second Chamber in that composition are affected by the General Court ruling; demands that the Council comments on this failure and clarifies who takes responsibility for this; ________________ 1a ECLI:EU:T:2018:22.