Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 September 2010

Italian Republic v European Commission

Rules on the use of languages - Notice of open competitions for the recruitment of administrators and assistants - Publication in three official languages - Amendments - Publication in all the official languages - Choice of the second language from three languages - Regulation No 1 - Articles 27, 28 and 29(1) of the Staff Regulations - Article 1(1) and (2) of Annex III to the Staff Regulations - Obligation to state reasons - Principle of non-discrimination - Misuse of power

Joined Cases T-166/07 and T-285/07



Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
06/11/2010 Italy v Commission
Judgment
ECLI:EU:T:2010:393
13/09/2010 Italy v Commission
Judgment (Information)
ECLI:EU:T:2010:393
13/09/2010 Italy v Commission
Application (OJ)
07/07/2007 Italy v Commission
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Reports of Cases

2010 II-00193*

Pub somm

Subject-matter

Application for the annulment of Notice of Open Competition EPSO/AD/94/07 for the drawing up of a reserve list for the recruitment of Administrators (AD5) in the field of information, communication and the media (OJ 2007 C 45 A, p.3) and Notice of Open Competition EPSO/AST/37/07 for the drawing up of a reserve list for the recruitment of Assistants (AST3) in the field of communication and information (OJ 2007 C 45 A, p. 15), in so far as those notices are published only in French, English and German

Systematic classification scheme

1.
7 General and final provisions
  7.05 Language arrangements
7 General and final provisions
  7.05 Language arrangements
9 Staff cases
  9.08 Recruitment
    9.08.04 Competitions
      9.08.04.01 Notice of competition
        9.08.04.01.02 Arrangements for publication
9 Staff cases
  9.08 Recruitment
    9.08.04 Competitions
      9.08.04.01 Notice of competition
        9.08.04.01.02 Arrangements for publication
9 Staff cases
  9.01 The sources of European civil service law
    9.01.02 Principles of the law of the European civil service
      9.01.02.02 Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 08/05/2007

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

13/09/2010


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Applications: OJ C 155 from 07.07.2007, p.39 ; OJ C 223 from 22.09.2007, p.15

Judgment: OJ C 301 from 06.11.2010, p.24

Name of the parties

Italy v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Dupont-Lassalle, Julie: Régime linguistique des actes, Europe 2010 Novembre Comm. nº 11 p.16-17 (FR)
  2. Singer, Philippe: Le pénal tient le disciplinaire en l'état ... Yes, but how long ? Les grands principes à l'épreuve des réalités (suite), JurisNews 2016 N° 2-3 p.57-66 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

  • Provisions governing the institutions

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds

Formation of the Court

sixième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Meij

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

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