ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD CHAMBER OF THE CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
18 September 2012 (*)
(Joinder)
In Case F‑78/11,
ACTION brought under Article 36.2 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank annexed to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
BM, resident in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), represented by L. Levi and M. Vandenbussche, lawyers,
applicant,
v
European Central Bank (ECB), represented initially by P. Embley and E. Carlini, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer, and subsequently by M. López Torres and E. Carlini, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer,
defendant,
and in Case F-106/11,
ACTION brought under Article 36.2 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank annexed to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
BM, resident in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), represented by L. Levi, and M. Vandenbussche, lawyers,
applicant,
v
European Central Bank (ECB), represented initially by P. Embley and E. Carlini, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer, and subsequently by M. López Torres and E. Carlini, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer,
defendant,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD CHAMBER OF THE CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL
makes the following
Order
1 Under Article 46(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Tribunal, in the interests of the proper administration of justice, the President may, at any time, after hearing the parties, order that two or more cases shall, on account of the connection between them, be joined for the purposes of the written or oral procedure or of the final decision.
2 By letters from the Registry of 19 July 2012, the parties were informed that the President of the Third Chamber of the Tribunal proposed to join the abovementioned cases, on account of the connection between them, for the purposes of the oral procedure. The same letter requested the parties to state their position regarding that joinder.
3 The parties have not raised any objections in that regard.
4 Accordingly, on account of the connection between the abovementioned cases, it is appropriate to join them for the purposes of the oral procedure.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD CHAMBER OF THE CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL
hereby orders:
1. Cases F-78/11 BM v ECB and F-106/11 BM v ECB shall be joined for the purposes of the oral procedure.
2. The costs are reserved.
Luxembourg, 18 September 2012.
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