CELEX: C1996/233/36
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 13 June 1996 by Roberto Monaco against the European Parliament (Case T-92/96)

10 . 8 . 96           EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No C 233/21
principles of equality of treatment between candidates and           The applicant argues, first, that in view of the special needs
of the duty to have regard for the welfare and interests of          of the service for which he was appointed, it was necessary
officials . The administration is bound, therefore, to ensure        to recruit a candidate with proven professional experience
that the tests are held in a regular manner and, in the event        enabling him to be immediately operational. The applicant
that an irregularity or incident is found to have occurred, to       maintains that those special needs justify the application of
draw up a report for the competition selection board .               Article 31 (2 ) of the Staff Regulations and, consequently, his
                                                                     own recruitment to grade C 4 .
The applicant maintains that, since in the present case the
administration has failed to establish that she did not hand         Secondly, the applicant argues that, in assessing the
in the form containing her answer to thé third written test in       professional experience of the candidates in application of
the competition, that form must be deemed to have been               paragraph IV 'conditions of employment' of the notice of
handed in . She considers that, having failed to produce any         competition, the appointing authority acted contrary to the
evidence to the contrary, the defendant cannot refuse to             principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination, and
admit her to the second part of the written tests on the             in breach of its duty to protect legitimate expectations, by
ground that she did not take part in all the tests in the first      using different criteria in the case of the first two persons
part .                                                               placed on the list of suitable candidates (who were recruited
                                                                     to grade C 4 ) from those applied in the applicant's case .
The applicant accordingly pleads that the contested decision
was adopted in breach of the duty to have regard for the             Lastly, the applicant asserts that the contested decision is
welfare and interests of officials and the right to a fair           vitiated by the failure to state relevant reasons or, at the very
hearing, and that it is vitiated by a manifest error.                least, failure to give sufficient reasons, in so far as the
                                                                     Parliament did not disclose the criteria used by the
                                                                     appointing authority to assess whether the applicant's
                                                                     qualifications warranted an appointment to the higher
                                                                     grade in his career bracket.
Action brought on 13 June 1996 by Roberto Monaco
               against the European Parliament
                        ( Case T-92/96 )
                          ( 96/C 233/36 )                            Action brought on 14 June 1996 by Catherine Presle against
                                                                     the European Centre for the Development of Vocational
                                                                                            Training ( Cedefop )
                (Language of the case: French)
                                                                                              ( Case T-93/96 )
                                                                                                ( 96/C 233/37 )
An action against the European Parliament was brought
before the Court of First Instance of the European
Communities on 13 June 1996 by Roberto Monaco,                                       (Language of the case: German)
residing at Capellen ( Luxembourg ), represented by
Jean-Noël Louis, Thierry Demaseure and Ariane Tornel, of             An action against the European Centre for the Development
the Brussels Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg          of Vocational Training ( Cedefop ) was brought before the
at the offices of Fiduciaire Myson Sari, 1 Rue Glesener.             Court of First Instance of the European Communities on
                                                                      14 June 1 996 by Catherine Presle, of Berlin, represented by
The applicant claims that the Court should :                         Frank Montag, Rechtsanwalt, of Deringer Tessin Herrmann
                                                                     &C Sedemund, 13 Place des Barricades, Brussels .
— annul the Parliament's decision of 22 August 1995 in so
     far as it appoints the applicant to grade C 5 ,                 The applicant claims that the Court should :
— order the Parliament to pay the costs .                            — annul the decision of the Director of the European
                                                                          Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Pleas in law and main arguments adduced in support:                       ( Cedefop ) of 22 May 1996 ,
The applicant entered the service of the European                    — order the European Centre for the Development of
Parliament in 1980 as a skilled employee in grade D 3 and                 Vocational Training ( Cedefop ) to pay the costs .
was subsequently promoted to grade D 2 ( in 1982 ) and then
to grade D 1 ( in 1991 ). He took part in open competition           Pleas in law and main arguments adduced in support:
PE/115/C, organized for the purpose of constituting a
reserve for the recruitment of clerical assistants ( grades C 4      The applicant is an official of the European Centre for the
and C 5 ), and was placed third on the list of successful            Development of Vocational Training ( Cedefop ), the seat of
candidates . By decision of 25 August 1995 , he was                  which was moved on 1 September 1995 from Berlin to
appointed to grade C 5 in the clerical assistant career              Thessaloniki . In the course of the implementation of the
bracket. He contests that decision, maintaining that he               accompanying measures adopted for the organization of the
should have been appointed to grade C 4 .                             social aspects of the move , employees who were unable for