European Union Civil Service Tribunal

The European Union Civil Service Tribunal was a specialised court within the Court of Justice of the European Union. It was established on 2 December 2005 and ceased to exist on 1 September 2016. Its legal basis was the provision of the Treaty of Nice for judicial panels in specific areas, later amended and codified as Article 257 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union by the Treaty of Lisbon, which allows specialised courts attached to the General Court. The Council of the European Union adopted a decision establishing the tribunal on 2 November 2004. Composed of seven judges, it decided disputes between the European Union and its civil service, a jurisdiction that the General Court had exercised until 2005. Its decisions could be appealed on questions of law only to the General Court and, in exceptional cases, were open to review by the Court of Justice. The tribunal was dissolved in 2016, despite the success of its mandate, so that the size of the General Court could be doubled.