CELEX: 62016TA0437
Language: en
Date: 2020-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-437/16: Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2020 — Italy v Commission (Language regime — Notice of open competition for the recruitment of administrators in the field of audit — Language knowledge — Limitation of the choice of second language to German, English and French — Language for communication — Regulation No 1 — Article 1d(1), Article 27 and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations — Discrimination on grounds of language — Justification — Interest of the service — Proportionality)

9.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 378/25
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2020 — Italy v Commission
      (Case T-437/16) (1)
      
      (Language regime - Notice of open competition for the recruitment of administrators in the field of audit - Language knowledge - Limitation of the choice of second language to German, English and French - Language for communication - Regulation No 1 - Article 1d(1), Article 27 and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations - Discrimination on grounds of language - Justification - Interest of the service - Proportionality)
      (2020/C 378/28)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by P. Gentili, Avvocato dello Stato)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and D. Milanowska, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener, in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: L. Aguilera Ruiz, acting as Agent)
      
         Re
      
      Action brought under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the notice of open competition EPSO/AD/322/16 for drawing up a reserve list of Administrators in the field of audit (AD 5/AD 7) (OJ 2016, C 171 A, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls notice of open competition EPSO/AD/322/16 for drawing up a reserve list of Administrators in the field of audit (AD 5/AD 7);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the Italian Republic;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 371, 10.10.2016.