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Action brought on 9 January 2012 – ZZ v Commission and EMA

(Case F-2/12)

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Parties

Applicant: ZZ (represented by: M. Ekimdzhiev, K. Boncheva and G. Chernicherska, lawyers)

Defendants: European Commission and European Medicines Agency

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Application for (i) the annulment of the Commission’s decisions concerning the drawing up and approval of the shortlist submitted to the EMA’s Management Board in the context of the procedure for the selection and appointment of the Executive Director of that agency, (ii) the annulment of the appointment of another candidate to that post and (iii) compensation for the non-material damage allegedly sustained.

Form of order sought

Annul the decision of the pre-selection panel adopting a shortlist of candidates for submission to the European Commission’s Consultative Committee on Appointments, notified to the applicant by email of 14 March 2011;

annul the prior decision of the European Commission’s Consultative Committee on Appointments of 14 March 2011 calling the four candidates on the pre-selection panel’s shortlist to an interview with that committee, notified to the applicant by email of 14 March 2011;

annul the decision of the European Commission’s Consultative Committee on Appointments of 14 March 2011 agreeing with the opinion of the pre-selection panel that the four candidates on the latter’s shortlist had greater merits, notified to the applicant by email of 14 March 2011;

annul the decision of the European Commission of 20 April 2011 adopting a shortlist of candidates;

annul the decision of the European Commission of 6 October 2011 rejecting the administrative complaint submitted under Article 90 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and setting out the grounds of the European Commission’s decision of 20 April 2011 adopting a shortlist of candidates;

annul the decision of the Management Board of the EMA of 6 October 2011 appointing the Executive Director of the EMA, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 91(4) of Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, that decision having been the subject of a complaint submitted to the appointing authority pursuant to Article 90 of those Staff Regulations;

order appropriate compensation for the non-material damage sustained;

order the Commission and the EMA to pay the costs.