CELEX: 62018TA0273
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-273/18: Judgment of the General Court of 5 June 2019 — Bernaldo de Quirós v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Disciplinary measures — Disciplinary procedure — Acts contrary to the dignity of the civil service — Administrative investigation — Mandate given to IDOC — Principle of impartiality — Principle of good administration — Rights of the defence — Disciplinary procedure — Principle of equality of arms — Disciplinary penalty of a reprimand — Proportionality — Non-material damage)

29.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 255/42
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 June 2019 — Bernaldo de Quirós v Commission
      (Case T-273/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Disciplinary measures - Disciplinary procedure - Acts contrary to the dignity of the civil service - Administrative investigation - Mandate given to IDOC - Principle of impartiality - Principle of good administration - Rights of the defence - Disciplinary procedure - Principle of equality of arms - Disciplinary penalty of a reprimand - Proportionality - Non-material damage)
      (2019/C 255/54)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Belén Bernaldo de Quirós (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by M. Casado García-Hirschfeld, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by G. Berscheid, B. Mongin and R. Striani, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of Commission decision of 6 July 2017 imposing the penalty of a reprimand on the applicant under Article 9(1)(b) of Annex IX to the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and, where appropriate, of the decision of 31 January 2018 rejecting the applicant’s complaint against that decision and, secondly, compensation for the harm allegedly suffered by the applicant following those decisions.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Ms Belén Bernaldo de Quirós to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 240, 9.7.2018.