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Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 12 November 2020 – Pethke v EUIPO

(Case C‑382/19 P) (
[1](#t-ECR_62019CJ0382_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(Appeal – Civil Service – Official – Internal reorganisation of the services of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) – Redeployment – Article 7 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union – Covert penalty – Interests of the service – Equivalence of posts – Obligation to state reasons – Distortion of the facts – Psychological harassment – Article 12a of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union)

| 1. | Officials – Reorganisation of departments – Reassignment – Compliance with the principle of assignment to an equivalent post – Scope – Right to retain specific duties – None  (Staff Regulations, Arts 7(1) and 45(1); European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1023/2013, recital 19)  (see paras 50-52, 54, 55) |

| 2. | Appeal – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted – Ground of appeal alleging distortion of the clear sense of the evidence – Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and show the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion – Requirement that the distortion be obvious from the documents in the file  (Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d))  (see paras 60-62, 65, 77, 79, 86) |

| 3. | Officials – Psychological harassment – Definition – Reassignement without evidence of misconduct – Precluded  (Staff Regulations, Art. 12a(3))  (see paras 95-97) |

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the appeal; |

| 2. | Orders Mr Ralph Pethke to bear his own costs and pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62019CJ0382_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 337, 7.10.2019](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2019:337:TOC).

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