CELEX: 62018TA0372
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-372/18: Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 — Colombani v EEAS (Civil service — Officials — Promotion — 2017 promotion year — Decision not to promote the applicant to Grade AD 14 — Article 43 and Article 45(1) of the Staff Regulations — Consideration of comparative merits — Taking into account staff reports for the purpose of promotion — Purely literal assessments — No method enabling staff reports to be compared for the purpose of promotion)

16.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/38
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 — Colombani v EEAS
      (Case T-372/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Promotion - 2017 promotion year - Decision not to promote the applicant to Grade AD 14 - Article 43 and Article 45(1) of the Staff Regulations - Consideration of comparative merits - Taking into account staff reports for the purpose of promotion - Purely literal assessments - No method enabling staff reports to be compared for the purpose of promotion)
      (2019/C 423/46)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Jean-Marc Colombani (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: N. de Montigny, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European External Action Service (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Spac, acting as Agents, and M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the decision of the EEAS of 9 November 2017 (ADMIN(2017) 21) not to promote the applicant to Grade AD 14 in the 2017 promotion exercise.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Annuls the decision of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of 9 November 2017 (ADMIN(2017) 21) not to promote Mr Jean-Marc Colombani to Grade AD 14 in the 2017 promotion exercise;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the EEAS to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 319, 10.9.2018.