Judgment — ECLI:EU:F:2015:148
Date: 2015-12-10
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Single Judge
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded;Staff cases - inadmissible

Summary Officials — Reports procedure — Appraisal report — Drawing up — Dialogue with the reporting officer — Official’s interview shorter in duration than those of his colleagues — Infringement of principle of non-discrimination — None (Staff Regulations, Art. 43) In relation to the drawing up of an official’s appraisal report, the content and, accordingly, the duration of an interview with the reporting officer may vary in accordance with the difficulties of each case to be examined. In that respect, the length of the interview of an official whose professional performance is assessed relatively positively by his superiors will not be comparable to the length of the interview of an official whose performance raises a number of issues. Accordingly, the fact that an official’s interview is shorter than those of his colleagues cannot, in itself, demonstrate the existence of any discrimination against that official. (see paras 29, 30) See: Judgment of 30 November 2005 in Vanlangendonck v Commission, T‑361/03, EU:T:2005:433, paragraph 39 and the case-law cited therein