CELEX: 62019TA0804
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-804/19: Judgment of the General Court of 1 December 2021 — HC v Commission (Civil service — Recruitment — Notice of competition — Open competition EPSO/AD/363/18 — Decision not to admit the applicant to the next stage of the competition — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment — Plea of illegality — Equal treatment — Proportionality — Right to be heard — Principle of sound administration — Language rules for the competition — Discrimination based on language — Liability)

31.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/26
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 1 December 2021 — HC v Commission
      (Case T-804/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Recruitment - Notice of competition - Open competition EPSO/AD/363/18 - Decision not to admit the applicant to the next stage of the competition - Obligation to state reasons - Manifest error of assessment - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Proportionality - Right to be heard - Principle of sound administration - Language rules for the competition - Discrimination based on language - Liability)
      (2022/C 51/36)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: HC (represented by: G. Pandey, V. Villante and D. Rovetta, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Brauhoff, T. Lilamand and D. Milanowska, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action pursuant to Article 270 TFEU for the annulment of, first, the notice of competition EPSO/AD/363/18 of 11 October 2018 organised for the purpose of drawing up two reserve lists from which the Commission is to recruit administrators (at grade AD 7) in the fields of customs and taxation, secondly, the decision of the selection board for that competition not to include the applicant’s name on the list of individuals invited to the assessment centre, thirdly, the decision of that selection board rejecting the applicant’s request for a review, fourthly, the Commission’s decision of 20 August 2019 dismissing the applicant’s claim under Article 90(2) of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and, fifthly, the list of candidates invited to the next stage of the competition, and for compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result thereof.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders HC to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.