European Parliament
Ioan Enciu  (S&D ),
in writing.
– I voted in favour of the motion for a European Parliament legislative resolution on the draft regulation amending the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice because, given the evident increase in the workload of the Court in the last years, a revision of the rules concerning its activities and the composition of the Court was fundamental.
The document, containing proposals relating to the Court of Justice and to the General Court, aims at strengthening the working capacity of the ECJ, in line with the guidelines suggested by the European Commission. The suggested reform, by amending Articles 16 and 17 of the Statute, wants to increase the participation of the judges in cases assigned to the Grand Chamber, allowing them to sit far more frequently than at present, thereby easing the activities of the President of the Court and the Presidents of the Chambers of five judges, redistributing the workload in a more balanced way.
I positively welcome this text amending the Protocol on the Court of Justice because it responds to the urgent need for a necessary rationalisation of certain specific aspects of the working rules of the ECJ, a crucial component of the European Union institutional architecture.

