The Anneau
The Anneau, a building surrounding the Palais, is home to the chambers of the Judges and Advocates General of the Court, as well as the conference rooms. It is, as such, the heart of the Court.
The Anneau rests on a peristyle of 116 columns 10 metres high.
The Anneau clearly separates the private spaces – where the Members and the Advocates General carry out their tasks of reflection – from those spaces devoted to the public aspect of judicial activity.
The essential work relating to the actual performance of the task entrusted to the Court is carried out in this building. It is in these chambers that the drafts of judgments prepared by the reporting Judges and the Opinions of the Advocates General are brought to fruition. Without interpreters or assistants, the Judges sitting on a case meet in one of the conference rooms to discuss the draft judgment and finalise the grounds for it.
