CELEX: 62008TN0117(01)
Language: en
Date: 2008-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-117/08: Action brought on 11 March 2008 — Italy v Commission and EESC

9.5.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 116/26
            
         Action brought on 11 March 2008 — Italy v Commission and EESC
   (Case T-117/08)
   (2008/C 116/48)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: P. Gentili, avvocato dello Stato)
   
      Defendants: Commission of the European Communities, European Economic and Social Committee
   Form of order sought
   
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               The Italian Republic challenges before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities the following acts published by the EESC:
               
                           (1)
                        
                        
                           vacancy notice No 73/07 concerning a post of Secretary-general in the Secretariat of the European Economic and Social Committee, published only in the English, French and German versions of the 
                                 Official Journal of the European Union C 316 A of 28 December 2007;
                        
                     
                           (2)
                        
                        
                           corrigendum to the vacancy notice published only in the English, French and German versions of the 
                                 Official Journal of the European Union C 25 A of 30 January 2008.
                        
                     
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   The pleas in law and main arguments are similar to those relied on in Case T-156/07 Spain v Commission
       (1).
   In addition to infringement of Regulation No 1/58 and Article 290 EC, the applicant submits in particular, on the ground of lack of the requisite competence, infringement of Article 12 EC, Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union and a number of provisions of the Staff Regulations of the European Civil Service, as well as a failure to state adequate reasons and misuse of power in the present case.
   
      (1)  OJ C 140, 23.6.2007, p. 42.