CELEX: C2001/045/52
Language: en
Date: 2001-02-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-384/00: Action brought on 27 December 2000 by Agnès Ajour and others against the Commission of the European Communities

10.2.2001              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                         C 45/25
The applicant claims that the Court should:                               Ajour and others, represented by Jean-Noël Louis and
                                                                          Véronique Peere, of the Brussels Bar.
—     annul the Commission’s decision appointing another
      person to post COM/001/00 COMP/D/3 ‘Trade and other                 The applicants claim that the Court should:
      services’, being a grade A3 head of unit post;
                                                                          —     annul the decisions of the Commission concerning the
—     annul the Commission’s decision rejecting the application                 drawing-up of the applicants’ pay slips in respect of the
      of the applicant for the post in question;                                arrears of remuneration due to them for the period from
                                                                                15 May to 31 December 1999 and their pay slips drawn
—     award the sum of 120 000 euro, subject to increase or                     up since January 2000, pursuant to Council Regulation
      decrease during the course of the proceedings, by way of                  No 2700/1999 of 17 December 1999 adjusting with
      compensation for the non-material damage suffered by                      effect from 1 July 1999 the remuneration and pensions
      the applicant as a result of the irregular or incomplete                  of officials and other servants of the European Communi-
      information gathered by the defendant in relation to the                  ties and the weightings applied thereto;
      applicant’s personal file and the state of uncertainty and
      worry in which he has been placed with regard to his                —     as regards the applicants to whom the decision of
                                                                                14 April 2000 is not addressed, annul the decisions of
      future career;
                                                                                the Commission concerning the drawing-up of their pay
—     award the sum of 25 000 euro, subject to increase or                      slips since January 2000;
      decrease during the course of the proceedings, by way of            —     order the defendant to pay the costs.
      compensation for the material damage suffered by the
      applicant as a result of his having been rejected as a
      candidate for the post to be filled and of his having thus          Pleas in law and main arguments
      lost an opportunity of promotion;
                                                                          The applicants in the present case are Commission officials or
—     order the Commission to pay all the costs.                          temporary staff seconded to the Food and Veterinary Office in
                                                                          Dublin. They have brought their action as a result of the
                                                                          application to them, with effect from 16 May 1999, of
Pleas in law and main arguments                                           the weightings referred to in Article 6(2) of Regulation
                                                                          No 2700/1999 (1).
The pleas in law and main arguments are similar to those in
                                                                          In the applicants’ view, the Commission has applied a weight-
Case T-376/00 Morello v Commission.
                                                                          ing which does not guarantee officials of the European
                                                                          Communities who are posted to Dublin a standard of living
                                                                          and purchasing power equivalent to that of officials working
                                                                          in Brussels.
                                                                          In support of their application, the applicants plead:
Action brought on 27 December 2000 by Agnès Ajour                         —     infringement of Articles 64 and 65a of the Staff Regu-
and others against the Commission of the European                               lations of officials of the European Communities and of
                           Communities                                          Annex XI to those Regulations, and breach of the
                                                                                principles of good management and sound adminis-
                         (Case T-384/00)                                        tration;
                                                                          —     breach of the principles of equal treatment, reasonable
                          (2001/C 45/52)                                        career prospects for all European officials and freedom of
                                                                                movement for workers.
                    (Language of the case: French)
                                                                          (1) Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 2700/1999 of
                                                                              17 December 1999 adjusting with effect from 1 July 1999 the
An action against the Commission of the European Communi-                     remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the
ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the                    European Communities and the weightings applied thereto (OJ
European Communities on 27 December 2000 by Agnès                             L 327 of 21.12.1999, p. 1).