CELEX: 62007TJ0156
Language: en
Date: 2010-09-13
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 September 2010. # Kingdom of Spain v European Commission. # Rules on the use of languages - Notice of open competitions for the recruitment of administrators - Publication in all the official languages - Amendments - Regulation No 1 - Articles 27, 28 and Article 29(1) of the Staff Regulations - Article 1(1) and (2) of Annex III to the Staff Regulations - Obligation to state reasons - Principle of non-discrimination. # Joined cases T-156/07 and T-232/07.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 September 2010 – Spain v Commission
      (Joined Cases T-156/07 and T-232/07)
      Rules on the use of languages – Notice of open competitions for the recruitment of administrators – Publication in all the official languages – Amendments – Regulation No 1 – Articles 27, 28 and Article 29(1) of the Staff Regulations – Article 1(1) and (2) of Annex III to the Staff Regulations – Duty to state reasons – Principle of non-discrimination
      1.                     European Communities – Rules on languages – No general principle giving each citizen the right to have any document capable
            of affecting his interests drafted in his own language (Council Regulation No 1) (see paras 53-54)
      2.                     European Communities – Rules on languages – Regulation No 1 – Scope (Council Regulation No 1) (see paras 54-56)
      3.                     Officials – Competitions – Notice of competition – Publication in the Official Journal only in certain official languages
            (see paras 61-69)
      4.                     Officials – Competitions – Notice of competition – Full publication in the Official Journal only in certain official languages
            (see paras 80-85)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment, first, of the Notice of Open Competition EPSO/AD/94/07 to constitute a reserve pool of Administrators
                  (AD 5) in the field of information, communication and media (OJ 2007 C 45 A, p. 3) and, second, of the Notice of Open Competition
                  EPSO/AD/95/07 to constitute a reserve pool of Administrators (AD 5) in the field of information science (library/documentation)
                  (OJ 2007 C 103 A, p. 7).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs and to pay those of the European Commission;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Republic of Lithuania and the Hellenic Republic to bear their own costs.