CELEX: 62015FA0125
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Case F-125/15: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 21 July 2016 — HB v Commission (Civil service — Officials — 2014 promotion exercise — Article 45(1) of the Staff Regulations — Comparison of the merits — 2011 and 2012 staff reports — Absence of several months due to maternity leave in 2013 — Staff report lacking any substantive assessment for the year in question — Decision not to promote the applicant in 2014 — Duty to provide a statement of reasons — Consideration of the comparative merits — No recommendation from the Joint Promotion Committee — Access to the applicant’s individual computerised file — Composition of the Joint Promotion Committee — Discrimination based on gender — Non-material damage)

3.10.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 364/36
            
         
      Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 21 July 2016 — HB v Commission
      (Case F-125/15) (1)
      
      ((Civil service - Officials - 2014 promotion exercise - Article 45(1) of the Staff Regulations - Comparison of the merits - 2011 and 2012 staff reports - Absence of several months due to maternity leave in 2013 - Staff report lacking any substantive assessment for the year in question - Decision not to promote the applicant in 2014 - Duty to provide a statement of reasons - Consideration of the comparative merits - No recommendation from the Joint Promotion Committee - Access to the applicant’s individual computerised file - Composition of the Joint Promotion Committee - Discrimination based on gender - Non-material damage))
      (2016/C 364/43)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: HB (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Berardis-Kayser and G. Berscheid, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision not to promote the applicant to grade AD 8 in the 2014 promotion exercise and compensation for the non-material damage which the applicant claims to have suffered.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Tribunal:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders HB to bear half of her own costs;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay half of HB’s costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 398, 30/11/2015, p. 80.