CELEX: 62014FN0028
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Case F-28/14: Action brought on 28 March 2014 — ZZ v EEAS

16.6.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 184/44
            
         Action brought on 28 March 2014 — ZZ v EEAS
   (Case F-28/14)
   2014/C 184/73
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: ZZ (represented by: J.-N. Louis and D. de Abreu Caldas, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European External Action Service (EEAS)
   
      Subject-matter and description of the proceedings
   
   Annulment of the decisions of the High Representative of the European Union to terminate the applicant’s contract as a member of the temporary staff, to refuse to hear him as regards acts of psychological harassment, to reject his request that an external investigator should be appointed and to register his complaint as a request.
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Tribunal should:
   
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               annul the decision of 20 December 2013 of the High Representative of the European Union, Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) to terminate the applicant’s contract as a member of the temporary staff within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the CEOS with effect from 31 March 2014;
            
         
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               annul the decision of the HR/VP to refuse to hear the applicant, even though the applicant had expressly requested this in the covering letter accompanying his complaint of 9 December 2013 against the Chief Operating Officer of the EEAS in respect of facts of psychological harassment;
            
         
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               annul the decision of the HR/VP to reject the applicant’s request to designate an external investigator of very high level, with wide experience of the conditions of employment governing the institutions of the European Union and who is completely impartial, for the purposes of determining the facts, drawing the appropriate conclusions from them and making recommendations to the HR/VP on the measures to be taken following that complaint;
            
         
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               annul the decision of the HR/VP to register his complaint as a request and to have it dealt with by the DG HR.D.2 ‘Legal Affairs, Communication and Stakeholder Relations’, no member of which is of the grade or has the authority of the official against whom the complaint was lodged;
            
         
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               order the EEAS to pay the costs.