CELEX: 62018TA0187
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-187/18: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — VP v Cedefop (Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Request for renewal of a contract for an indefinite period — Decision not to renew — Manifest error of assessment — Right to be heard — Article 26 of the Staff Regulations — Liability — Material damage — Non-material damage)

15.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/30
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — VP v Cedefop
      (Case T-187/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Members of the temporary staff - Request for renewal of a contract for an indefinite period - Decision not to renew - Manifest error of assessment - Right to be heard - Article 26 of the Staff Regulations - Liability - Material damage - Non-material damage)
      (2021/C 53/39)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: VP (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (represented by: M. Brugia, acting as Agent, and by T. Bontinck and A. Guillerme, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU for (i) annulment of Cedefop’s decision of 12 May 2017 not to renew the applicant’s contract as a member of the temporary staff for an indefinite period and, as far as necessary, of the decision of 1 December 2017 rejecting her complaint of 9 August 2017 against the decision of 12 May 2017 and (ii) compensation for the material and non-material damage which the applicant allegedly suffered as a result of those decisions.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) of 12 May 2017 not to renew VP’s contract as a member of the temporary staff;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of 1 December 2017 rejecting VP’s complaint;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Cedefop to pay EUR 30 000 as compensation for the material damage sustained by VP;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders Cedefop to pay EUR 10 000 as compensation for the non-material damage sustained by VP;
               
            
                  5.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  6.
               
               
                  Orders Cedefop to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 166, 14.5.2018.