Action brought on 17 September 2012 – ZZ v Commission

(Case F-97/12)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: ZZ (represented by: D. Abreu Caldas, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis, E. Marchal and S. Orlandi, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Annulment of the decision of the European Commission not to recruit the applicant after her success in the EPSO/AD/177/10-EPA competition and a claim for damages.

Form of order sought

Annul the decision of the Appointing Authority of 11 November 2011 refusing to grant the request of the European Commission Directorate General for Regional Policy to recruit the applicant by appointing her and assigning her as an official to the vacant post COM/2011/218;

Annul the decision of the Appointing Authority of 5 June 2012 rejecting in part the appeal against the decision of the Appointing Authority of 11 November 2011 refusing to grant the request of the Directorate General for Regional Policy to recruit the applicant as an official;

Order the European Commission to reconstruct the applicant’s career;

Order the European Commission to pay EUR 14 911.07 in addition to payment of contributions to the pension scheme from October 2011;

Order the European Commission to pay EUR 2 500 in respect of the material and non-material damage caused, subject to increase or reduction during the proceedings, those sums to be increased by late-payment interest calculated from the date on which the sums were due at the rate applied by the ECB to its main refinancing operations plus two points;

Order the European Commission to pay the costs.