{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1988-591/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1988/591",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 24 October 1988 establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities (88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1988-591",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The Court of First Instance shall consist of 12 members.\n2. The members shall elect the President of the Court of First Instance from among their number for a term of three years. He may be re-elected.\n3. The members of the Court of First Instance may be called upon to perform the task of an Advocate-General.\nIt shall be the duty of the Advocate-General, acting with complete impartiality and independance, to make, in open court, reasoned submissions on certain cases brought before the Court of First Instance in order to assist the Court of First Instance in the performance of its task.\nThe criteria for selecting such cases, as well as the procedures for designating the Advocates-General, shall be laid down in the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance.\nA member called upon to perform the task of Advocate-General in a case may not take part in the judgment of the case.\n4. The Court of First Instance shall sit in chambers of three or five judges. The composition of the chambers and the assignment of cases to them shall be governed by the Rules of Procedure. In certain cases governed by the Rules of Procedure the Court of First Instance may sit in plenary session.\n5. Article 21 of the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities and Article 6 of the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities shall apply to the members of the Court of First Instance and to its Registrar.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replacement",
      "affecting": "",
      "affecting_title": "ACT concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded - PART TWO : ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TREATIES - TITLE 1 : INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS - CHAPTER 4 : The Court of Justice - Article 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "completion",
      "affecting": "eudn/1999/291",
      "affecting_title": "1999/291/EC, ECSC, Euratom: Council Decision of 26 April 1999 amending Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities to enable it to give decisions in cases when constituted by a single judge"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}