Order of the General Court of 7 December 2017 — Durazzo v EEAS
(Case T-559/16) 1
(Civil service — Officials — Promotion — 2014 promotion exercise — Acts not adversely affecting an official — Manifest inadmissibility — Decision not to promote the applicant — Article 43 and Article 45(1) of the Staff Regulations — Consideration of comparative merits — Taking into account staff reports for the purpose of promotion — Purely literal assessments — No method enabling staff reports to be compared for the purpose of promotion — Manifestly well-founded action)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Giacomo Durazzo (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: N. de Montigny and J.-N. Louis, lawyers)
Defendant: European External Action Service (EEAS) (represented by: initially by S. Marquardt and M. Silva, and subsequently by S. Marquardt, acting as Agents, and by M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers)
Re:
Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of three acts of the EEAS, namely (i) the proposal for promotion of 11 July 2014 in so far as it concerns Grade AD 13, (ii) the decision of 29 October 2014 not to promote the applicant to Grade AD 13 under the 2014 promotion exercise, and (iii) the decision of 28 May 2015 rejecting the complaint submitted by the applicant against that refusal to promote him.
Operative part of the order
1.    The decision of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of 29 October 2014 not to promote Mr Giacomo Durazzo to Grade AD 13 under the 2014 promotion exercise is annulled.
2.    The action is dismissed as to the remainder.
3.    The EEAS is ordered to pay the costs.
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1     OJ C 302, 14.9.2015 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-101/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1 September 2016).