CELEX: 62015FA0133
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Case F-133/15: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Single Judge) of 10 June 2016 — HI v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Article 11 of the Staff Regulations — Duty of loyalty — Article 11a — Conflict of interests — Official responsible for monitoring a project funded by the European Union — Family link between that official and an employee recruited for the purposes of the project by the company responsible for that project — Disciplinary procedure — Disciplinary action — Downgrading — Lawfulness of the composition of the Disciplinary Board — Obligation to state reasons — Length of the procedure — Reasonable time — Infringement of the rights of the defence — Principle of ne bis in idem — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality of the penalty — Mitigating circumstances)

25.7.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 270/69
            
         Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Single Judge) of 10 June 2016 — HI v Commission
   (Case F-133/15) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - Officials - Article 11 of the Staff Regulations - Duty of loyalty - Article 11a - Conflict of interests - Official responsible for monitoring a project funded by the European Union - Family link between that official and an employee recruited for the purposes of the project by the company responsible for that project - Disciplinary procedure - Disciplinary action - Downgrading - Lawfulness of the composition of the Disciplinary Board - Obligation to state reasons - Length of the procedure - Reasonable time - Infringement of the rights of the defence - Principle of ne bis in idem - Manifest error of assessment - Proportionality of the penalty - Mitigating circumstances))
   (2016/C 270/76)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: HI (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Ehrbar and F. Simonetti, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision to impose on the applicant, following an investigation concerning a conflict of interest, a penalty of permanent downgrading by two grades, and for compensation for the non-material damage which the applicant claims to have suffered.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Tribunal:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders HI to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 414, 14.12.2015, p. 45.