Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 8 February 2012 – Bouillez and Others v Council
(Case F-11/11) 1
(Civil service – Officials – Promotion – 2010 promotion exercise – Refusal of promotion – Consideration of comparative merits of officials in the AST function group following their career stream – Obligation on an institution not to apply a provision giving effect to the Staff Regulations which is tainted by illegality)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Bouillez and Others (Overijse, Belgium) (represented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers)
Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and J. Herrmann, agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the decision of the appointing authority not to promote the applicants to a higher grade in the 2010 promotion exercise.
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
Dismisses the action;
Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs and to pay the applicants’ costs.
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1 OJ 2011 C 139, p. 30.