The draft amendments to CJEU’s Statute and the future challenges of administrative adjudication in the EU

Table of contents: 1. Introduction – 2. The status quo: the peculiar ‘functional continuity’ of each Board of Appeal with its agency – 3. A brief contextualisation of the proposed reform: its genesis – 4. A part of a bigger (yet postponed) debate? – 5. A quantitative assessment of the proposed reform – 6. Detailed analysis of the draft amendments under negotiation – 6.1 The position of the Council and of the Court of Justice – 6.2 The position of the European Parliament – 7. Proposal for a different wording – 7.1 Explanatory notes: the opportunity to extend the Boards’ jurisdiction (and to fully legitimise ERA Board) – 7.2 (…): a careful approach on Boards’ independence – 7.3 (…): the need to go beyond the Boards’ jurisdiction as ‘prerequisite’ – 8. Towards a new era for Boards of Appeal?