CELEX: 62018TA0548
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-548/18: Judgment of the General Court of 13 January 2021 — Helbert v EUIPO (Civil service — Recruitment — Notice of competition — Open Competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 — Decision not to place the applicant’s name on the reserve list for the competition — Composition of the selection board — Stability — Liability)

1.3.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/18
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 January 2021 — Helbert v EUIPO
      (Case T-548/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Recruitment - Notice of competition - Open Competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 - Decision not to place the applicant’s name on the reserve list for the competition - Composition of the selection board - Stability - Liability)
      (2021/C 72/27)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Lars Helbert (Alicante, Spain) (represented by: H. Tettenborn, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Lukošiūtė and K. Tóth, acting as Agents, assisted by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action pursuant to Article 270 TFEU seeking, on the one hand, annulment, first, of the decision of 1 December 2017 of the selection board for Competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 — Administrators (AD 6) in the field of intellectual property not to place the applicant’s name on the reserve list drawn up with a view to the recruitment of administrators by EUIPO and, second, of the decision of that selection board of 7 March 2018 rejecting the applicant’s request for review in its final form following EUIPO’s decision of 8 June 2018 rejecting his complaint, and, on the other hand, compensation for the damage that the applicant claims to have suffered as a result.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of 7 March 2018, by which the selection board for Open Competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 refused, after review, to place Mr Lars Helbert on the reserve list for the recruitment of grade AD 6 administrators in the field of intellectual property;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 427, 26.11.2018.