62021CJ0587_SUM
Case C‑587/21 P
DD
v
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 December 2024
(Appeal – Civil service – Members of the temporary staff – Disciplinary proceedings – Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union – Annex IX – Article 3 – Compliance with the judgments of the Civil Service Tribunal and of the General Court of the European Union – Annulment of the decisions of the appointing authority – Discretion – Obligation to resume the proceedings at the very point at which the illegality occurred – Rights of the defence – Right to be heard – Article 29 – Compensation for the harm suffered)
Actions brought by officials – Judgment annulling a measure – Effects – Obligation to adopt compliance measures – Judgment annulling an act concluding an administrative procedure which comprises several stages – Resumption of the procedure at the point at which the illegality occurred – Whether permissible
(Art. 266 TFEU; Staff Regulations of officials, Annex IX, Arts 3 and 29)
(see paragraphs 22-25, 27-32, 48)
Actions brought by officials – Judgment annulling a measure – Effects – Annulment of a decision imposing a disciplinary penalty – Annulment based on an infringement of the applicant’s rights of defence at the end of the administrative stage of the procedure – Disciplinary proceedings abandoned and removal of all earlier acts from the personal file – Not permissible
(Art. 266 TFEU; Staff Regulations of officials, Annex IX, Arts 3 and 29)
(see paragraphs 33-38, 40, 41)
Officials – Disciplinary measures – Proceedings – Observance of the rights of the defence – Right of the person concerned to be heard – Scope – Decision to abandon the proceedings without finding that no case could be made against the person concerned – Decision adopted without first giving the person concerned the opportunity to comment – Infringement of the right to be heard
(Staff Regulations of Officials, Annex IX, Art. 3)
(see paragraphs 50-54)
See the text of the decision.