CELEX: 62018TA0047
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-47/18: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — UZ v Parliament (Civil service — Officials — Disciplinary proceedings — Psychological harassment — Disciplinary sanction — Downgrading by one grade and resetting of promotion points to zero — Rejection of the applicant’s request for assistance — Manner in which the administrative investigation was carried out — Requirement of impartiality — Right to be heard — Procedural irregularity — Consequences of the procedural irregularity)

2.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 406/28
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — UZ v Parliament
      (Case T-47/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Disciplinary proceedings - Psychological harassment - Disciplinary sanction - Downgrading by one grade and resetting of promotion points to zero - Rejection of the applicant’s request for assistance - Manner in which the administrative investigation was carried out - Requirement of impartiality - Right to be heard - Procedural irregularity - Consequences of the procedural irregularity)
      (2019/C 406/37)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: UZ (represented by: J.-N. Louis, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented: initially by V. Montebello-Demogeot and Í. Ní Riagáin Düro, and subsequently by V. Montebello-Demogeot and I. Lázaro Betancor, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the Parliament’s decision of 27 February 2017 imposing on the applicant the disciplinary sanction of downgrading from grade AD 13, step 3, to grade AD 12, step 3, and resetting the merit points acquired in grade AD 13 to zero and, secondly, annulment of the decision rejecting the applicant’s request for assistance.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the decision of the European Parliament of 27 February 2017 imposing on UZ the disciplinary sanction of downgrading from grade AD 13, step 3, to grade AD 12, step 3, and resetting the merit points acquired in grade AD 13 to zero;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders UZ and the Parliament to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 123, 9.4.2018.