CELEX: C2000/372/31
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-330/00: Action brought on 26 October 2000 by Stefano Cocchi and Evi Hainz against Commission of the European Communities

23.12.2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     C 372/15
Pleas in law and main arguments                                         The applicant accuses the Commission of infringing its right
                                                                        to a hearing, because on its inspection of the files it was
                                                                        not presented with all the relevant supporting documents.
The applicant, who is assigned to the Office for Official               Moreover, because of the improper conduct of the Spanish
Publications of the European Communities, is contesting the             authorities and the Commission, particularly in the area of
decision rejecting his request to be assigned to a third country        quota administration, special circumstances existed within the
pursuant to Article 3 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations of            meaning of Article 13 of the Regulation. It also maintains that
officials.                                                              there is no proof or any convincing evidence of alleged forgery,
                                                                        and that the Commission has explained the facts in a defective
The pleas in law and main arguments are largely identical with          and incomplete manner.
those relied upon in Case T-202/00.
                                                                        (1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1430/79 of 2 July 1979 on the
                                                                            repayment or remission of import or export duties (OJ 1979
                                                                            L 175, p. 1).
Action brought on 25 October 2000 by Bonn Fleisch
Ex- und Import GmbH against the Commission of the
                    European Communities
                                                                        Action brought on 26 October 2000 by Stefano Cocchi
                        (Case T-329/00)
                                                                        and Evi Hainz against Commission of the European
                                                                                                  Communities
                        (2000/C 372/30)
                                                                                                (Case T-330/00)
                  (Language of the case: German)
                                                                                                (2000/C 372/31)
An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities on 25 October 2000 by Bonn Fleisch                                    (Language of the case: French)
Ex- und Import GmbH, established in Troisdorf, Germany,
represented by Dietrich Ehle, Rechstsanwalt, Cologne.                   An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                        ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
                                                                        European Communities on 26 October 2000 by Stefano
The applicant claims that the Court should:
                                                                        Cocchi and Evi Hainz, residing in Italy, represented by Georges
                                                                        Vandersanden and Laure Levi, of the Brussels Bar.
—     annul Commission Decision K(2000) 2207 endg. of
      25 July 2000 (REM 49/99);
                                                                        The applicants claim that the Court should:
—     order the Commission to pay the costs.
                                                                        —     annul the decisions of the Authority Empowered to
                                                                              Conclude Contracts (AECC) of 16 March 2000 and of
Pleas in law and main arguments                                               22 February 2000 not to accept the applicants’ candi-
                                                                              dature for the posts advertised in vacancy notices
                                                                              COM/R/5530/00 of 24 February 2000 and
The action is brought against the Commission’s decision of                    COM/R/5500/00 of 24 January 2000, or, in the alterna-
25 July 2000, in which the latter refused the application by                  tive, to annul those vacancy notices;
the Federal Republic of Germany to grant the applicant
remission of import duties for the importation of beef on the           —     annul the appointments made by the AECC, of unknown
basis of Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1430/79 (1). The                   date, in the context of the recruitment procedures put in
Commission maintains in the contested decision that the                       motion by those two vacancy notices;
extracts submitted by the applicant at the time of import
clearance were forgeries, and that licence forgeries fall within
the business risk of the applicant. Neither the Spanish auth-           —     order the defendant to pay one euro by way of damages
orities which issued the licences nor the Commission had                      for the damage suffered as a result of that decision, such
acted improperly, so the normal business risk to be borne by                  sum being set ex aequo et bono and provisionally;
importers of goods benefiting from customs advantages was
not exceeded.                                                           —     order the defendant to pay the whole of the costs.
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Pleas in law and main arguments                                         The applicants claim that the Court should:
                                                                        —     annul the decisions of the Authority Empowered to
The applicants are former temporary agents working for the                    Conclude Contracts (AECC) of 16 March 2000, 3 Februa-
Commission at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) at Ispra, Italy.                ry 2000, 17 March 2000, 17 January 2000 and 16 March
                                                                              2000 not to accept the applicants’ candidature for the
                                                                              posts advertised in vacancy notices COM/R/5526/00 of
By the contested decisions, the Commission informed the                       24 February 2000, COM/R/5889/99 of 21 December
applicants that their applications for the two vacant posts had               1999, COM/R/5520/00 of 24 February 2000,
not been taken into consideration.                                            COM/R/5863/99 of 26 November 1999 and
                                                                              COM/R/5521/00 of 24 February 2000, or, in the alterna-
                                                                              tive, to annul those vacancy notices and, in so far as
The applicants criticise the Commission for having given                      necessary, annul the decision of the AECC of 25 July
priority to applications from officials, which were examined                  2000 rejecting the applicants’ complaints;
and compared on their own, without those of temporary
agents, including the candidatures of the applicants, being             —      order the defendant to pay one euro by way of damages
examined at the same time. By failing to consider the
                                                                              for the damage suffered as a result of that decision, such
comparative merits of all the candidatures, the Commission
                                                                              sum being set ex aequo et bono and provisionally;
infringed Articles 4, 7, 27, 29 and 45 of the Staff Regulations
and Article 12 of the Conditions of Employment of other
servants and breached the principle of non-discrimination.              —     order the defendant to pay the whole of the costs.
Moreover, the applicants claim that the contested decisions are
                                                                        Pleas in law and main arguments
devoid of any formal statement of reasons. Furthermore, they
were not taken in the interest of the service and are not
compatible with the new policy of the Commission vis-à-vis              The pleas in law and main arguments are similar to those
research staff. Finally, the applicants take the view that the          relied on in Case T-330/00 Cocchi and Heinz v Commission.
contested decisions are acts of mismanagement and are
contrary to the duty of the administration to have regard for
the welfare of officials.
                                                                        Action brought on 3 November 2000 by Rougemarine
                                                                        SARL against Commission of the European Communities
                                                                                                (Case T-333/00)
Action brought on 26 October 2000 by Laurence Bories
and 4 others against Commission of the European Com-
                            munities                                                            (2000/C 372/33)
                         (Case T-331/00)                                                  (Language of the case: French)
                                                                        An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
                         (2000/C 372/32)
                                                                        ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
                                                                        European Communities on 3 November 2000 by Rougemarine
                                                                        SARL, whose registered office is at Paris, represented by
                                                                        Thierry Levy, of the Paris Bar.
                  (Language of the case: French)
                                                                        The applicant claims that the Court should:
An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
                                                                        —     annul in its entirety the decision of the Commission of
European Communities on 26 October 2000 by Laurence
                                                                              the European Communities of 5 September 2000;
Bories and Philippe Chemin, Laura Copes, Emanuele Mondini
and Helen Preissler, residing in Italy, represented by Georges
Vandersanden and Laure Levi, of the Brussels Bar.                       —     annul Council Decision 95/563/EC of 10 July 1995;