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"Mr President, it is a great honour and pleasure for me to speak in this debate chaired by you. I look forward to very constructive cooperation and thank you for your kind words.
Before concluding let me just say a few words on the question which was raised concerning how the Council is considering dealing with the question of the enlargement of the composition of the General Court. You know that on 20 June, Coreper gave a mandate to the Friends of the Presidency group to continue reflections with a view to identifying possible solutions and reporting back to Coreper by the end of the year.
It is a shared objective of the European Parliament and the Council to put in place appropriate measures to deal with the General Court’s backlog by the time of the General Court's partial renewal in December 2013, but we all need to understand that this question is really very complicated and we need some innovative thinking because we need to ensure, on the one hand, the quality of the appointees and consistency with the existing system of Article 255, but we also need to somehow ensure the equal footing, or the equal status, of those new judges with the others. Just imagine that we opt for an equal rotation. Who are those who are going to rotate? Only those twelve, let us say, or all of them? When it comes to any one country, do they have one judge for sure, who is already there, and the new one has to rotate, and his mandate will not be renewable? I am just sharing with you some of the possible questions which we need to find a way to address.
On behalf of the Council, let me just thank again the rapporteur and all the MEPs on the constructive debate on the reform of the Court of Justice of the European Union and assure you that we are looking forward to the introduction of the new rules this autumn. I am also optimistic that this constructive cooperation with Parliament will continue so that we can find a timely solution to the challenges facing the General Court. It is in the interests of all us to have a properly working Court of Justice in the European Union."@en1
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