ABSTRACT
The judges in the ECJ are appointed by ‘common accord of the governments of Member States’. Each state makes one nomination. Unlike superior judges in the United Kingdom, the qualification for appointment to judicial office in the ECJ is that candidates are ‘persons whose independence is beyond doubt and who possess the qualifications required for appointment to the highest judicial offices in their respective countries or who are jurisconsults of recognised competence’. Judges are appointed for a six year term of office (Article 223).
