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Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) of 27 June 2017 —  
Clarke and Others v EUIPO

(Case T‑89/16 P)

(Appeal — Civil service — Temporary staff — Fixed-term contract with a termination clause terminating the contract in the event that the name of the agent is not included on the reserve list of the next open competition — Implementation of the termination clause — Reclassification of a fixed-term contract as a contract of indefinite duration — Duty of care — Legitimate expectation)

| 1. | Appeal — Grounds — Mistaken assessment of the facts — Inadmissibility — General Court’s review of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted  (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58 and Annex I, Art. 11(1))  (see paras 25, 26, 44) |

| 2. | Appeal — Grounds — Inadequate statement of reasons — Recourse by the Civil Service Tribunal to implicit reasoning — Lawfulness — Conditions  (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 36 and Annex I, Art. 7(1))  (see paras 37, 38) |

| 3. | Appeal — Grounds — Grounds of a judgment vitiated by an infringement of EU law — Operative part well founded for other legal reasons — Rejection  (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)  (see paras 82, 83) |

Re:

APPEAL brought against the judgment of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 15 December 2015, Clarke and Others v OHIM ([F‑101/14 to F‑103/14](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=ecli:ECLI%3AEU%3AF%3A2015%3A151&locale=en), [EU:F:2015:151](./../../../legal-content/redirect/?urn=ecli:ECLI%3AEU%3AF%3A2015%3A151&lang=EN&format=pdf&target=CourtTab)) seeking annulment of that judgment.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the appeal; |

| 2. | Orders Nicole Clarke, Sigrid Dickmanns and Elisavet Papathanasiou to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in the present appeal. |

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