Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 6.6.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 178/29 |

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Action brought on 29 March 2017 — SB v EUIPO

(Case T-200/17)

(2017/C 178/42)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: SB (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the decision of the Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 2 June 2016 by which the applicant was refused a second renewal of her contract and against the rejection by the Executive Director of EUIPO of 19 December 2016 of the applicant’s complaint of 1 September 2016; |

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| — | order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings. |

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on four pleas in law.

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| 1. | First plea in law, alleging the breach of the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Union as a result of the application of the defendant’s internal rules which equate officials and temporary agents with indefinite contracts. Moreover, by differentiating between temporary agents with fixed-term contracts and temporary agents with contracts concluded for an indefinite period, the defendant infringes the Staff Regulations and, in the case at hand, the principle of equal treatment. |

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| 2. | Second plea in law, alleging the lack of reasoning or illegal, contradictory and insufficient reasoning. |

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| 3. | Third plea in law, alleging failure to respect the duty of care owed to staff. |

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| 4. | Fourth plea in law, alleging discrimination on the grounds of age as a result of the application by the defendant of a staff policy aimed at reducing the average age of the staff population. |

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