Judgment — ECLI:EU:F:2007:33
Date: 2007-03-01
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded;Staff cases - inadmissible;Action for damages - unfounded

Summary Officials – Principles – Protection of legitimate expectations The fact that the head of a department has had contact with a candidate for a post as a member of the temporary staff in order to explore the possibility of including her in his team, and that he expressed his desire that she would be so included, does not create a legitimate expectation on the part of the candidate that she will be recruited, where the administration has issued no document setting out a genuine promise of recruitment, but, on the contrary, the person concerned has been informed by other officials with responsibility for recruitment of doubts concerning such a possibility. (see paras 81-85)