CELEX: 62019TA0087
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-87/19: Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Broughton v Eurojust (Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Deferment of advancement to a higher step for a period of six months — Annulment of reclassification in the higher grade — Ability to work in a third language — Administrative investigation — Duty to act in good faith — Impartiality — Rights of the defence — Equality of arms — Obligation to state reasons — Articles 11 and 12 of the Staff Regulations)

7.12.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Broughton v Eurojust
      (Case T-87/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Members of the temporary staff - Deferment of advancement to a higher step for a period of six months - Annulment of reclassification in the higher grade - Ability to work in a third language - Administrative investigation - Duty to act in good faith - Impartiality - Rights of the defence - Equality of arms - Obligation to state reasons - Articles 11 and 12 of the Staff Regulations)
      (2020/C 423/51)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Jon Broughton (Rotterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: D. Coppens, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) (represented by: J. Jooma and A. Terstegen-Verhaag, acting as Agents, and by D. Waelbroeck and A. Duron, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought under Article 270 TFEU seeking, in essence, first, annulment of the decisions of 4 May 2018 by which Eurojust deferred the applicant’s advancement to a higher step for a period of six months, held that French was his third language, annulled his reclassification from grade AD 9 to AD 10, which occurred in 2012, and proceeded to recover the amounts received since that year on account of that reclassification, second, a declaration that French must be considered to be the applicant’s second language and Dutch his third language, third, a declaration that the recovery of the amounts received by the applicant as a result of his reclassification in grade was unlawful and that the amounts recovered by Eurojust must be reimbursed to the applicant and, fourth, a declaration that Eurojust must restore the applicant’s legal position to what it was previously.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Jon Broughton to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust).
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 139, 15.4.2019.