The Creation of the Court of First Instance and of the Appeal

Abstract

Chapter 1 describes the ECJ’s situation in the 1980s and the negotiations which led to the creation of the Court of First Instance and the transfer of certain areas of jurisdiction from the Court of Justice to that court. Those changes in the EU Court structure created the need for an additional legal remedy: the ‘appeal’. The appeals system was then adjusted to accommodate later developments, such as the creation of the Civil Service Tribunal and the recast of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice. Nowadays, it is the reform of the General Court which has the greatest impact on appeals before the Court of Justice.