62020TO0146(01)_INF
Order of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 28 July 2021 –Csordas and Others v Commission
(Case T‑146/20)
(Action for annulment – Civil service – Officials – Regularity of the elections for the Luxembourg local section of the Commission’s Staff Committee – Presentation of a joint list of six trade unions or professional organisations – Supervisory obligation of the institution – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
1.
Actions brought by officials – Staff Committee – Elections – Jurisdiction of the EU judicature – Limits
(Art. 270 TFEU; Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 90 and 91)
(see paras 41-47)
2.
Officials – Representation – Staff Committee – Elections – Regularity – Obligation of the institutions to ensure the regularity of electoral operations – Scope
(Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 9(2), 90 and 91)
(see paras 56, 57, 61-67)
3.
Officials – Representation – Staff Committee – Elections – Staff Committee of the Commission in Luxembourg – Presentation of a joint list of several trade unions or professional organisations – No indication of the name of the organisation to which each candidate belongs – Infringement of the principle of freedom of choice of the elector in voting – None
(Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 9(2) and (3) and 24b and Annex II, Art. 1, fourth para.)
(see paras 76, 77, 84-88)
4.
Officials – Representation – Staff Committee – Elections – Staff Committee of the Commission in Luxembourg – Presentation of a joint list of several trade unions or professional organisations – Obligation to maintain the proportionality of the number of candidates belonging to those organisations at the representativeness sharing rates agreed between them – None
(Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 24b)
(see paras 107-109)
Re:
Application under Article 270 TFEU for, first, annulment or a declaration that the Commission’s failure to prevent or censure a number of acts or omissions relating to the November 2019 elections to the Luxembourg local section of the Commission’s Staff Committee is unlawful; second, annulment of the Commission’s memorandum of 28 November 2019 concerning the calculation of the representativeness of representative trade unions and professional organisations in the institution; and third, the annulment of any decision concerning the allocation of additional resources to the trade unions or professional organisations signatories to the representativeness agreement of 14 October 2019 in relation to those available to them on the basis of the representativeness that had been conferred on them following the 2016 elections of the Luxembourg local section of the Staff Committee.
Operative part
1.
The action is dismissed.
2.
The applicants shall pay the costs, including the costs relating to the interim proceedings.