Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 14 December 2018 –GM and Others v Commission
(Case T‑539/16)
(Civil service — Officials — Reform of the Staff Regulations — Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 — Types of posts — Transitional measures relating to classification in the types of posts — Article 31 of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations — Assistants in transition — Promotion pursuant to Article 45 of the Staff Regulations authorised only within the career streams corresponding to the type of post held — Exclusion of AST 9 officials from the promotion procedure — No act having an adverse effect — Confirmatory measure — Lis pendens — Manifest inadmissibility — Article 129 of the Rules of Procedure — Objection of inadmissibility — Article 130 of the Rules of Procedure)
1.      Actions brought by officials — Admissibility criteria — Mandatory — Examination by the EU judicature of its own motion
(Art. 270 TFEU)
(see para. 33)
2.      Actions brought by officials — Acts adversely affecting an official — Definition — Purely confirmatory act — Not included
(Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 90(2) and 91(1))
(see paras 34-38)
3.      Judicial proceedings — Objection of lis pendens — Same parties, subject-matter and submissions in two actions — Inadmissibility of the second action
(see para. 39)
4.      Action for annulment — Jurisdiction of the EU judicature — Application for annulment of an individual act adversely affecting an official — Union judicature’s lack of jurisdiction to declare a provision of general application unlawful in the operative part of its judgments
(Arts 263 and 277 TFEU; Staff Regulations of Officials, as amended by Regulation No 1023/2013, Art. 45 and Annex I)
(see paras 41-44)
Re:
Action under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the decisions of the Commission by which the appointing authority of that institution classified the applicants as holding the post of ‘Assistant in transition’, resulting in the loss, with effect from 1 January 2014, of their eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade.
Operative part
1.
The action is dismissed as being manifestly inadmissible.
2.
The European Commission shall bear its own costs and pay half of the costs incurred by GM, GN, GO and GP.
3.
GM, GN, GO and GP shall bear half of their own costs.
4.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union shall bear their own costs relating to their respective applications for leave to intervene.