CELEX: C1996/233/41
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Removal from the register of Case T-228/95

No C 233/24          EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                               10 . 8 . 96
The selection board thus committed a manifest error of               damage for which the Commission was liable to make
assessment and infringed the notice of competition by                compensation .
disregarding, without stating any reason, the experience
acquired during the four and a half years spent preparing her
doctoral thesis .
The Commission also committed an administrative error by                   Removal from the^register of Case T-228/95 ( )
stating incorrect reasons in its letter to her of 15 February                                  ( 96/C 233 /41 )
1996 for the selection board's decision not to admit her to
the competition tests, namely that she had not lodged the                          (Language of tbe Case: English)
documents evidencing her professional experience within
the time limit. It was subsequently shown that those                 By order of 21 June 1996 , the President of the Fourth
documents had in fact been lodged on time . The applicant            Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the European
stresses that that error, which was inexcusable having               Communities ordered the removal from the register of Case
regard to the low participation in the competition, resulted         T-228/95 : S. Lehrfreund Ltd v. Council of the European
in her being thrown into several months' uncertainty and             Union and Commission of the European Communities .
anxiety as to her admission to the competition and as to
her professional future . She thus suffered non-material             (•) OJ No C 64, 2 . 3 . 1996 .