Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the fifth paragraph of Article 254 thereof,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 106a(1) thereof,

Having regard to the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and in particular Article 63 thereof,

Whereas implementation of the reform of the judicial architecture of the Court of Justice of the European Union resulting from Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2422 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (1) and from Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2016/1192 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 on the transfer to the General Court of jurisdiction at first instance in disputes between the European Union and its servants (2) requires that the procedural rules governing the performance of the duties conferred on the Vice-President of the General Court be amended,

With the agreement of the Court of Justice,

With the approval of the Council given on 16 July 2018,

Article 1

The Rules of Procedure of the General Court of 4 March 2015  (3) are hereby amended as follows:

Article 2

These amendments to the Rules of Procedure, authentic in the languages referred to in Article 44 of those Rules, shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall enter into force on the first day of the month following that of their publication.