CELEX: 62020TA0022
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-22/20: Judgment of the General Court of 13 October 2021 — IB v EUIPO (Civil service — Officials — Disciplinary proceedings — Suspension of the invalidity procedure during the disciplinary proceedings — Removal from post — Invalidity procedure which has become devoid of purpose following removal from post — Action for annulment — Act adversely affecting an official — Admissibility — Principle of sound administration — Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials — Manifest error of assessment)

6.12.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 490/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 October 2021 — IB v EUIPO
      (Case T-22/20) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Disciplinary proceedings - Suspension of the invalidity procedure during the disciplinary proceedings - Removal from post - Invalidity procedure which has become devoid of purpose following removal from post - Action for annulment - Act adversely affecting an official - Admissibility - Principle of sound administration - Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials - Manifest error of assessment)
      (2021/C 490/36)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: IB (represented by: N. de Montigny, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Lukošiūtė, acting as Agent, and B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decision of EUIPO of 14 March 2019 in so far as, first, it removes the applicant from his post without reducing his entitlement to a pension and, second, it definitively closes the applicant’s invalidity procedure.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 14 March 2019 in so far as it definitively closes IB’s invalidity procedure;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the application as to the remainder.
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders each party to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 68, 2.3.2020.