CELEX: 62007TJ0205
Language: en
Date: 2011-02-03
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 February 2011.#Italian Republic v European Commission.#Rules on the use of languages – Publication on EPSO’s website of a call for expressions of interest to constitute a database of candidates to be recruited as contractual agents – Publication in three official languages – Articles 12 EC and 290 EC – Article 82 of the Conditions of Employment of other Servants – Regulation No 1.#Case T-205/07.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 February 2011 – Italy v Commission
      (Case T-205/07)
      Rules on the use of languages – Publication on EPSO’s website of a call for expressions of interest to constitute a database of candidates to be recruited
         as contractual agents – Publication in three official languages – Articles 12 EC and 290 EC – Article 82 of the Conditions of Employment of other Servants – Regulation No 1
      
      1.                     European Union – Rules on languages – Regulation No 1 – Scope – Relations between the institutions and their staff – Not included
            (Council Regulation No 1) (see paras 30-33)
      2.                     European Union – Rules on languages – No general principle giving each citizen the right to have any measure capable of affecting
            his interests drafted in his own language (Arts 290 EC and 314 EC; Council Regulation No 1) (see para. 50)
      3.                     Officials – Contractual agents – Recruitment – Call for expressions of interest to constitute a database of candidates to
            be recruited as contractual agents – Publication on the site of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) only in certain
            official languages – Obligation to adopt measures allowing all potential candidates to become aware of the existence and content
            of the call – Candidates having sufficient mastery of at least one of the languages of publication – Discrimination based
            on language – None – Candidates having only knowledge of other official languages – Discrimination based on language (Art.
            12 EC; Conditions of Employment of other Servants, Art. 82(1)) (see paras 52-54, 58-59, 63-64)
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Call for expressions of interest EPSO/CAST/EU/27/07 to constitute a database of candidates to
                  be recruited as contractual agents carrying out various activities within the European institutions and agencies, published
                  on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) on 27 March 2007.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls Call for expressions of interest EPSO/CAST/EU/27/07 to constitute a database of candidates to be recruited as contractual
                     agents carrying out various activities within the European institutions and agencies, published on the website of the European
                     Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) on 27 March 2007;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Italian Republic and the European Commission to bear their own costs.