Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (2nd Chamber) of 10 April 2014 – Nieminen v Council

(Case F-81/12) ¹

(Civil service – Promotion – 2010 promotion procedure – 2011 promotion procedure – Decision not to promote the applicant – Duty to state reasons – Examination of comparative merits – Administrators assigned to linguistic functions and administrators assigned to functions other than linguistic functions – Promotion quotas – Consistency in the duration of the merits)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Risto Nieminen (Kraainem, Belgium) (represented by: C. Abreu Caldas, S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers, initially, then C. Abreu Caldas, S. Orlandi and J.-N. Louis, lawyers)

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J. Herrmann and M. Bauer, Agents)

Re:

Application to annul the decisions not to promote the applicant to Grade AD 12 in respect of the 2010 and 2011 promotion procedures.

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

Dismisses the action;

Orders Mr Nieminen to bear his own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union.

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¹ OJ C 295, 29.09.2012, p. 34.