CELEX: 62016TA0609
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-609/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — PB v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Recruitment — Competition notice EPSO/AD/309/15 (AD 11) — Doctors for the Luxembourg site — Refusal of admission to the tests at the assessment centre — Limitation of the choice of second language to a restricted number of official languages of the European Union — Objection of illegality — Manifest error of assessment — Liability — Non-pecuniary harm)

12.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 52/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — PB v Commission
   (Case T-609/16) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - Officials - Recruitment - Competition notice EPSO/AD/309/15 (AD 11) - Doctors for the Luxembourg site - Refusal of admission to the tests at the assessment centre - Limitation of the choice of second language to a restricted number of official languages of the European Union - Objection of illegality - Manifest error of assessment - Liability - Non-pecuniary harm))
   (2018/C 052/37)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: PB (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and L. Radu Bouyon, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 270 TFEU and seeking, first, annulment of the decision of the selection board in Competition EPSO/AD/309/15 (AD 11) — Doctors for the sites of Luxembourg and Ispra (Field: Doctors Luxembourg) of 28 September 2015 not to admit the applicant to the selection tests held at the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) assessment centre and, second, compensation for the harm allegedly suffered by the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of 28 September 2015 by which the selection board for Open Competition EPSO/AD/309/15 (AD 11) — Doctors for the sites of Luxembourg and Ispra (Field: Doctors Luxembourg) refused to admit PB to the selection tests held at the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) assessment centre;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 371, 10.10.2016 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under number F-39/16 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).