CELEX: 62016CA0621
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-621/16 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 26 March 2019 — European Commission v Italian Republic, Republic of Lithuania (Appeal — Rules on languages — Open competition for the recruitment of administrators — Notice of competition — Administrators (AD 5) — Administrators (AD 6) in the field of data protection — Knowledge of languages — Restriction of the choice of language 2 of the competitions to English, French and German — Language of communication with the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) — Regulation No 1 — Staff Regulations — Discrimination based on language — Justification — Interests of the service — Judicial review)

3.6.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/4
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 26 March 2019 — European Commission v Italian Republic, Republic of Lithuania
      (Case C-621/16 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - Rules on languages - Open competition for the recruitment of administrators - Notice of competition - Administrators (AD 5) - Administrators (AD 6) in the field of data protection - Knowledge of languages - Restriction of the choice of language 2 of the competitions to English, French and German - Language of communication with the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) - Regulation No 1 - Staff Regulations - Discrimination based on language - Justification - Interests of the service - Judicial review)
      (2019/C 187/05)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: European Commission (represented by: L. Pignataro-Nolin and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by P. Gentili, avvocato dello Stato), Republic of Lithuania
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: M.J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, acting as Agent)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the appeal;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Italian Republic;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 46, 13.2.2017.