CELEX: 62019TA0843
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-843/19: Judgment of the General Court of 28 April 2021 — Correia v EESC (Civil service — EESC staff — Members of the temporary staff — Refusal to regrade — Action for annulment — Time limit for complaints — Burden of proving expiry of the time limit — Act adversely affecting an official — Admissibility — Equal treatment — Legal certainty — Action for damages — Non-material damage)

21.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 242/32
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 28 April 2021 — Correia v EESC
      (Case T-843/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - EESC staff - Members of the temporary staff - Refusal to regrade - Action for annulment - Time limit for complaints - Burden of proving expiry of the time limit - Act adversely affecting an official - Admissibility - Equal treatment - Legal certainty - Action for damages - Non-material damage)
      (2021/C 242/43)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Paula Correia (Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium) (represented by: L. Levi and M. Vandenbussche, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Economic and Social Committee (represented by: M. Pascua Mateo, X. Chamodraka and K. Gambino, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decision of the EESC adopted on a date unknown to the applicant, which the applicant became aware of on 12 April 2019, refusing to regrade her in grade AST 7 in the 2019 regrading process and, secondly, compensation for the non-material damage suffered by the applicant on account of that decision.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) refusing to regrade Mrs Paula Correia in the 2019 regrading process;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the EESC to pay Mrs Correia the sum of EUR 2 000 in respect of the non-material damage she suffered;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the EESC to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 45, 10.2.2020.