JUDGMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL

(First Chamber)

5 November 2013

Case F‑14/12

Peter Schönberger

v

Court of Auditors of the European Union

(Civil service — Officials — Promotion — 2011 promotion procedure — Reference multiplier rates)

Application:      under Article 270 TFEU, applicable to the EAEC Treaty pursuant to Article 106a thereof, in which Mr Schönberger requests the Tribunal to annul the decision by which the Court of Auditors of the European Union refused to promote him in the 2011 promotion procedure.

Held:      The action is dismissed. Mr Schönberger is to bear his own costs and is ordered to pay the costs incurred by the Court of Auditors of the European Union.

Summary

Officials — Promotion — Number of posts for each grade and function group — Reference multiplier rates for average career equivalences — Grades AD 12, AD 13 and AST 10 for the period from 1 May 2004 to 30 April 2011 — Application on a five-year basis

(Staff Regulations, Art. 6(2); Annexes I, section B, and XIII, Art. 9)

Article 9 of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations must be read in the light of the broad logic of the promotion system, which, while pursuing the aim of ensuring the equivalence of average career profiles between the new and old career structures, seeks to allow each institution, on a periodic basis, a certain leeway in applying the multiplier rates.

Moreover, although Article 9 of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations derogates from Annex I, section B, to the Staff Regulations by laying down, for grades AD 13, AD 12 and AST 10 and for the period from 1 May 2004 to 30 April 2011, different rates from those given in that annex, it does not contain any provision suggesting that an exception should also be made to the rule laid down in Article 6(2) of the Staff Regulations that the multiplier rates must be applied on a five-year basis.

(see paras 43-44)