Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Single Judge) of 10 June 2016 — HI v Commission
(Case F-133/15) 1
(Civil service — Officials — Article 11 of the Staff Regulations — Duty of loyalty — Article 11a — Conflict of interests — Official responsible for monitoring a project funded by the European Union — Family link between that official and an employee recruited for the purposes of the project by the company responsible for that project — Disciplinary procedure — Disciplinary action — Downgrading — Lawfulness of the composition of the Disciplinary Board — Obligation to state reasons — Length of the procedure — Reasonable time — Infringement of the rights of the defence — Principle of ne bis in idem — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality of the penalty — Mitigating circumstances)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: HI (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Ehrbar and F. Simonetti, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision to impose on the applicant, following an investigation concerning a conflict of interest, a penalty of permanent downgrading by two grades, and for compensation for the non-material damage which the applicant claims to have suffered.
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
Dismisses the action;
Orders HI to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
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1 OJ C 414, 14.12.2015, p. 45.