Today, 4 March 1998, the Court of Justice held a formal sitting on the occasion of the departure of Advocate General Giuseppe Tesauro, as well as of the departure from office as President and Member of the Court of First Instance of Mr Antonio Saggio and of his entry into office as Advocate General at the Court of Justice with a term of office which ends on 6 October 2000.

At the same formal sitting Mr Paolo Mengozzi entered into office as Judge at the Court of First Instance with a term of office which ends on 31 august 2001.

Mr Antonio Saggio and Mr Paolo Mengozzi took the oath before the Court of Justice.

Giuseppe Tesauro was born in 1942; Titular Professor of International Law and Community Law at the University of Naples; Advocate before the Corte di Cassazione; Member of the Council for Contentious Diplomatic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7 October 1988.

Antonio Saggio was born in 1934; Judge, Naples District Court; Adviser to the Court of Appeal, Rome, and subsequently the Corte di Cassazione; attached to the Ufficio Legislativo del Ministero di Grazia e Giustizia; Chairman of the General Committee in the Diplomatic Conference which drew up the Lugano Convention; Legal Secretary to the Italian Advocate General at the Court of Justice; Professor at the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, Rome; Judge at the Court of First Instance since 25 September 1989; President of the Court of First Instance since 18 September 1995.

Paolo Mengozzi was born in 1938; professor of International law and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Community law at the University of Bologna; Doctor honoris causa of the Carlos III University, Madrid; visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University (Bologna Center), at the Universities of St. Johns (New York) Georgetown, Paris II, Georgia (Athens) and the Institut Universitaire International (Luxembourg); co-ordinator of the European Business Law Pallas Program of the University of Nijmegen; member of the European Commission's consultative committee on public procurement; Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Trade and Industry during the Italian tenure of the Presidency of the Council; member of the working group of the European Communities on the World Trade Organization and director of the 1997 session of the Hague Academy of International Law devoted to the WTO; Judge at the Court of First Instance as from 5 March 1998.

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