CELEX: 62013TB0410
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-410/13: Order of the General Court of 30 September 2014  — Bitiqi and Others v Commission and Others (Action for annulment — Common Foreign and Security Policy — ‘Rule of law’ mission conducted by the European Union in Kosovo (Eurlex Kosovo) — Decisions of the head of the mission not to renew the employment contracts — Manifest lack of jurisdiction)

24.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 421/43
            
         Order of the General Court of 30 September 2014 — Bitiqi and Others v Commission and Others
   (Case T-410/13) (1)
   
   ((Action for annulment - Common Foreign and Security Policy - ‘Rule of law’ mission conducted by the European Union in Kosovo (Eurlex Kosovo) - Decisions of the head of the mission not to renew the employment contracts - Manifest lack of jurisdiction))
   2014/C 421/60
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Burim Bitiqi (London, United Kingdom); Arlinda Gjebrea (Pristina, Kosovo); Anna Gorska (Warsaw, Poland); Agim Hajdini (London); Josefa Martínez Estéve (Valencia, Spain); Denis Vasile Miron (Bucharest, Romania); James Nicholls (Swindon, United Kingdom); Zornitsa Popova Glodzhani (Varna, Bulgaria); Andrei Mihai Popovici (Bucharest); and Amaia San José Ortiz (Llodio, Spain) (represented: initially by A. Coolen, D. de Abreu Caldas, É. Marchal and J. N. Louis, then by D. de Abreu Caldas, M. de Abreu Caldas and J. N. Louis, avocats)
   
      Defendants: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher and A. C. Simon, acting as Agents); European External Action Service (EEAS) (represented by: S. Marquardt, É. Chaboureau and M. Silva, acting as Agents); AND Eulex Kosovo (represented by: B. Borchardt, acting as Agent, and by A. Fouquet Dörte, lawyer)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendants: Council of the European Union (represented by: A. Vitro and M. Bauer, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment of the decisions of the head of the mission ‘Rule of law’ conducted by the European Union in Kosovo (Eulex Kosovo) of 27 May and 2 July 2013 not to renew the applicants’ employment contracts.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The action is dismissed.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Burim Bitiqi, Arlinda Gjebrea, Anna Gorska, Agim Hajdini, Josefa Martínez Estéve, Denis Vasile Miron, James Nicholls, Zornitsa Popova Glodzhani, Andrei Mihai Popovici, Amaia San José Ortiz are ordered to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Eulex Kosovo.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               The Council of the European Union is ordered to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 325, 9.11.2013.