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===Chambers===
The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of fifteen judges (including the president and vice-president), or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sittings are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges.<ref>As can be seen from the decline in cases pending before the full court: {{citation |url=http://curia.europa.eu/en/instit/presentationfr/rapport/stat/07_cour_stat.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://curia.europa.eu/en/instit/presentationfr/rapport/stat/07_cour_stat.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Annual Report, 2007|publisher=The Court of Justice of the European Communities |page=94}}</ref> Each chamber elects its own president who is elected for a term of three years in the case of the five-judge chambers or one year in the case of three-judge chambers.

The Court is required to sit in full court in exceptional cases provided for in the treaties. The court may also decide to sit in full, if the issues raised are considered to be of exceptional importance.<ref name="Europa info"/> Sitting as a Grand Chamber is more common and can happen when a member state or a Union institution, that is a party to certain proceedings, so requests, or in particularly complex or important cases.

The court acts as a collegial body: decisions are those of the court rather than of individual judges; no minority opinions are given and indeed the existence of a majority decision rather than unanimity is never suggested.<ref>Craig and de Búrca, page 95.</ref>
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