CELEX: 62016TA0495
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Joined Case T-495/16 RENV I and T-496/16 RENV II: Judgment of the General Court of 28 September 2017 — Hristov v Commission and EMA (Civil Service — Appointment — Position of executive director of a regulatory agency — EMA — Selection and appointment procedure — Composition of the pre-selection panel — Impartiality — Assessment criteria — Appointment of another candidate — Res judicata)

13.11.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 382/42
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 September 2017 — Hristov v Commission and EMA
   (Joined Case T-495/16 RENV I and T-496/16 RENV II) (1)
   
   ((Civil Service - Appointment - Position of executive director of a regulatory agency - EMA - Selection and appointment procedure - Composition of the pre-selection panel - Impartiality - Assessment criteria - Appointment of another candidate - Res judicata))
   (2017/C 382/50)
   Language of the case: Bulgarian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Emil Hristov (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by: in Case T-495/16 RENV I, M. Ekimdzhiev, K. Boncheva and G. Chernicherska and, in Case T-496 RENV II, initially M. Ekimdzhiev, K. Boncheva and G. Chernicherska, then M. Ekimdzhiev and K. Boncheva, lawyers)
   
      Defendants: European Commission and European Medicines Agency (EMA) (represented by: G. Berscheid and N. Nikolova, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought under Article 270 TFEU and seeking, in particular, annulment of the Commission decision of 20 April 2011 by which it proposed to the EMA’s Management Board a list of four candidates recommended by the pre-selection panel and approved by the Consultative Committee on Appointments and of the decision of the EMA’s Management Board of 6 October 2011 appointing the Executive Director of the EMA and seeking compensation for the harm allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of those decisions.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Emil Hristov to pay the costs incurred in Cases F-2/12, T-26/15 P, T-27/15 P, T-495/16 RENV I and T-495/16 RENV II.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 184, 23.6.2012 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under Case No F-2/12).