62022TO0022_INF
Order of the President of the General Court of 31 March 2022 –AL v Council
(Case T‑22/22 R)
(Interim relief – Civil service – Officials – Disciplinary proceedings – Removal from post – Application for interim measures – Urgency – Prima facie case – Weighing of interests)
1.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and irreparable damage – Burden of proof – Serious and irreparable damage for the applicant – Interest of the applicant affected – Damage to the health and life of his child connected with the loss of the financial benefits that he received for his child – Included
(Arts 278 and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 156(4))
(see paras 20, 21, 26-30)
2.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and irreparable damage – Financial loss – Serious nature of the damage – No need to assess the damage systematically in the light of the income of the person concerned
(Arts 278 and 279 TFEU)
(see para. 34)
3.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Prima facie case – Prima facie examination of the pleas in law put forward in support of the main action – Action against a decision imposing the disciplinary penalty of removal from post – Complaints that are capable of demonstrating, prima facie, a manifest error of assessment on the part of the administration in the decision on the disciplinary penalty – Complaints that are not prima facie unfounded
(Arts 278 and 279 TFEU; Staff Regulations of Officials, Annex IX, Arts 9 and 10)
(see paras 38, 39, 50-63)
4.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Conditions for granting – Balancing of all the interests involved – Suspension of operation of a decision imposing the disciplinary penalty of removal from post – Interest of the applicant in continuing to receive allowances for his disabled child taking priority over the interest militating against the temporary reinstatement of the applicant in his post
(Art. 278 TFEU; Staff Regulations of Officials, Annex IX, Arts 9 and 10)
(see paras 65, 68-70)
Operative part
1.
The operation of the decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 September 2021 imposing on the applicant the disciplinary penalty of removal from post is suspended with effect from 1 October 2021.
2.
The costs are reserved.