Protocol and Visits Directorate

The Protocol and Visits Directorate organises all the representation events and activities of the institution. It comprises two Units (Protocol and Visits) and a ‘works of art' section responsible for works of art entrusted or loaned to the institution.

Protocol

The Protocol Unit has the task of organising and managing all events and activities involving aspects of the representation of the institution and of its Members.  It is therefore responsible for organising formal sittings, official visits, study visits from national supreme and constitutional courts and international courts.  It is also responsible for organising the annual Meeting of national judges.

Visits

In the interests of ensuring that the judicial institution of the European Union is better known, the Court welcomes groups of visitors and offers them programmes tailored to their interests (seminars for national judges, study visits for legal professionals and law students and information sessions for non-lawyers). 

Each year the Court of Justice receives visits from approximately 4 000 legal professionals (national judges, advocates, university professors, in-house lawyers, etc.) and some 10 000 other visitors, mostly law students.

For more information:  - Visits and to apply for a visit