CELEX: C2006/326/176
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case F-135/06: Action brought on 27 November 2006 — Lafleur-Tighe v Commission

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/87
            
         Action brought on 27 November 2006 — Lafleur-Tighe v Commission
   (Case F-135/06)
   (2006/C 326/176)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Virgine Lafleur-Tighe (Makati, Philippines) (represented by: S. Rodrigues and C. Bernard-Glanz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul the decision of the appointing authority placing the applicant in grade 13, step 1, on the date of her recruitment as a contractual agent, in so far as that decision is to be inferred from the contract of employment signed on 22 December 2005;
            
         
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               indicate to the appointing authority the effects entailed by annulment of the contested decision, in particular, the fact that the applicant's work experience since 1993, when she obtained her Bachelor's degree, must be taken into account and that she must be re-graded as grade 14 with retroactive effect from 22 December 2005;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The applicant argues, first, that the appointing authority committed a manifest error of assessment in requiring her to produce a certificate attesting to the equivalence of her Bachelor's degree of comparable authority to the decision issued by the Government of the French Community in Belgium in respect of her Master's degree.
   Secondly, the applicant maintains that the appointing authority infringed the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination in so far as it refused to take into account the certificate issued by the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland attesting to the equivalence of that qualification.