Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2000:301
Date: 2000-12-13
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Organization of departments;General
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded;Staff cases - inadmissible

SUMMARY - JOINED CASES T-130/98 AND T-131/98 
T-131/98 are dismissed. The defendant is to bear the costs 
in Case T-130/98. Each of the parties is to bear their own 
costs, including those relating to the interlocutory 
proceedings, in Case T-131/98. 
Summary 
1. Officials - Posting - Correspondence between grade and post -
Reclassification of apost - Right to reclassification - No right 
(Staff Regulations, Art. 7(1); Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the 
European Communities, Art. 10) 
2. Officials - Actions - Interest in bringing an action - Action for annulment of 
a decision - Submission of failure to provide reasons - Decision which is unlikely 
to be amended — Submission not valid 
(Staff Regulations, Art. 91) 
1. A decision to transform a post falling within career bracket A 7/A 6 into a post 
in career bracket A 5/A 4 in no way means, ipso facto, that the person occupying 
the post concerned is reclassified in the higher grade of the career bracket 
corresponding to the post thus reclassified. That is all the more so where the person 
occupying the post concerned has, on account of the extension of his areas of 
responsibility, already been awarded a grade which corresponds to the career 
bracket within which the reclassified post now falls. 
(see para. 51) 
See: T-18/90 Jongen v Commission [1991] ECR II-187, para. 27 
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2. An applicant does not have legitimate interest in seeking the annulment of a 
decision, on the basis of failure to state the reasons on which it was based, when it 
is already certain that it can only be confirmed afresh. 
(see para. 52) 
See: 432/85 Souna v Commission [1987] ECR 2229, para. 20; T-27/92 Camera-Lampitelli 
and Others v Commission [1993] ECR II-873, para. 53 
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