Editing European Court of Justice (section)

==Seat==
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All the EU's judicial bodies are based in the [[Kirchberg, Luxembourg|Kirchberg]] quarter of [[Luxembourg City]], [[Luxembourg]]. The Court of Justice is seated in the ''[[Palais de la Cour de Justice]]''.

Luxembourg City was chosen as the provisional seat of the Court on 23 July 1952 with the establishment of the [[European Coal and Steel Community]]. Its first hearing there was held on 28 November 1954 in a building known as [[Villa Vauban]], the seat until 1959 when it would move to the Côte d'Eich building and then to the Palais building in 1972.<ref name="ENA Seat">{{cite web |last=Muñoz |first=Susana |title=Seat of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.|publisher=[[Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe|CVCE]] |url=http://www.cvce.eu/obj/seat_of_the_community_jurisdictions-en-487da69c-e62a-4617-b899-b696fefb6a4d.html |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref>

In 1965, the member states established Luxembourg City as the permanent seat of the Court. Future judicial bodies (Court of First Instance and Civil Service Tribunal) would also be based in the city. The decision was confirmed by the [[European Council]] at [[Edinburgh]] in 1992. However, there was no reference to future bodies being in Luxembourg City. In reaction to this, the Luxembourg government issued its own declaration stating it did not surrender those provisions agreed upon in 1965. The Edinburgh decision was attached to the [[Amsterdam Treaty]]. With the [[Treaty of Nice]] Luxembourg attached a declaration stating it did not claim the seat of the ''Boards of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market'' – even if it were to become a judicial body.<ref name="ENA Seat"/>