Article 1
Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union is hereby amended as follows: (1) Article 9 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 9 When, every three years, the Judges are partially replaced, one half of the number of Judges shall be replaced. If the number of Judges is an uneven number, the number of Judges who shall be replaced shall alternately be the number which is the next above one half of the number of Judges and the number which is next below one half. The first paragraph shall also apply when the Advocates-General are partially replaced, every three years.’. (2) Article 48 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 48 The General Court shall consist of: (a) 40 Judges as from 25 December 2015; (b) 47 Judges as from 1 September 2016; (c) two Judges per Member State as from 1 September 2019.’.