CELEX: 62016TA0560
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-560/16: Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2018 — Schneider v EUIPO (Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Internal reorganisation of EUIPO’s services — Redeployment — Legal basis — Article 7 of the Staff Regulations — Interests of the service — Significant change in tasks — Equivalence of posts — Covert penalty — Misuse of powers — Right to be heard — Obligation to state reasons)

4.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2018 — Schneider v EUIPO
      (Case T-560/16) (1)
      
      ((Civil service - Members of the temporary staff - Internal reorganisation of EUIPO’s services - Redeployment - Legal basis - Article 7 of the Staff Regulations - Interests of the service - Significant change in tasks - Equivalence of posts - Covert penalty - Misuse of powers - Right to be heard - Obligation to state reasons))
      (2019/C 44/29)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Gregor Schneider (Alicante, Spain) (represented by: H. Tettenborn, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Lukošiūtė, acting as Agent, and B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the decision of the Executive Director of EUIPO of 2 October 2014 to redeploy the applicant from the International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department to the Operations Department of EUIPO.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Gregor Schneider to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
               
            
         (1)  C 328, 5.10.2015 (case initially registered before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union under case number F-116/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).