CELEX: 62017TA0718
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-718/17: Judgment of the General Court of 2 June 2021 — Italy v Commission (Rules on languages — Notice of Open Competitions for the recruitment of administrators and assistants in the buildings sector — Knowledge of languages — Restriction of the choice of language 2 of the competitions to three languages — Regulation No 1 — Article 1d(1), Article 27 and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations — Discrimination based on language — Interests of the service — Proportionality)

19.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 289/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 2 June 2021 — Italy v Commission
      (Case T-718/17) (1)
      
      (Rules on languages - Notice of Open Competitions for the recruitment of administrators and assistants in the buildings sector - Knowledge of languages - Restriction of the choice of language 2 of the competitions to three languages - Regulation No 1 - Article 1d(1), Article 27 and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations - Discrimination based on language - Interests of the service - Proportionality)
      (2021/C 289/48)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and P. Gentili, avvocato dello Stato)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara, D. Milanowska and L. Vernier, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: S. Jiménez García, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the Notice of Open Competitions EPSO/AD/342/17 (AD 6) organised to draw up a reserve list of building management engineers (including environmental and services engineers), and EPSO/AST/141/17 (AST 3) organised to draw up a reserve list of, first, building construction coordinators and technicians (profile 1), second, building coordinators and technicians in air conditioning and electromechanical and electrical engineering (profile 2) and, third, occupational safety and building safety assistants (profile 3) (OJ 2017 C 242 A, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the Notice of Open Competitions EPSO/AD/342/17 (AD 6) organised to draw up a reserve list of building management engineers (including environmental and services engineers), and EPSO/AST/141/17 (AST 3) organised to draw up a reserve list of, first, building construction coordinators and technicians (profile 1), second, building coordinators and technicians in air conditioning and electromechanical and electrical engineering (profile 2) and, third, occupational safety and building safety assistants (profile 3);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Italian Republic;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 424, 11.12.2017.