http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eut/teec/article/255/2020-03-01Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European UnionConsolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union2020-12-24King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02016E/TXT-20200301texttext/xmlen2020-03-01 PART SIX <Strong>INSTITUTIONAL AND FINANCIAL PROVISIONS</Strong> TITLE I <Strong>INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS</Strong> CHAPTER 1THE INSTITUTIONS SECTION 5 THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Article 255 A panel shall be set up in order to give an opinion on candidates' suitability to perform the duties of Judge and Advocate-General of the Court of Justice and the General Court before the governments of the Member States make the appointments referred to in Articles 253 and 254. The panel shall comprise seven persons chosen from among former members of the Court of Justice and the General Court, members of national supreme courts and lawyers of recognised competence, one of whom shall be proposed by the European Parliament. The Council shall adopt a decision establishing the panel's operating rules and a decision appointing its members. It shall act on the initiative of the President of the Court of Justice.