ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT (Appeal Chamber)

25 September 2015

Case T‑533/14 P

Desislava Kolarova

v

Research Executive Agency (REA)

(Appeal — Civil service — Member of the contract staff — REA — Powers conferred on the authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment — Delegation to the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements (PMO) — Appeal directed against the delegating institution — Appeal clearly inadmissible in part and clearly unfounded in part)

Appeal:      against the order of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 30 April 2014 in Kolarova v REA (Case F‑88/13, ECR-SC, EU:F:2014:58), and seeking, inter alia, to have that order set aside.

Held:      The appeal is dismissed. Ms Desislava Kolarova is to bear her own costs and is ordered to pay those incurred by the Research Executive Agency (REA) on the appeal.

Summary

1.      Judicial proceedings — Obligation for the Civil Service Tribunal to commence the oral procedure before ruling on a plea of inadmissibility — None

(Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal, Art. 78(2))

2.      Appeal — Grounds of appeal — Incorrect assessment of the facts — Inadmissibility — General Court’s review of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted

(Art. 257 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 11(1))

3.      Appeal — Grounds of appeal — Mere repetition of the pleas in law and arguments presented before the Civil Service Tribunal — Error of law relied on not identified — Inadmissibility

(Art. 257 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 11(1); Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1991), Art. 138(1), first subpara., (c))

1.      See the text of the decision.

(see para. 30)

See:

Orders of 21 November 2005 in SNF v Commission, C‑482/04 P, EU:C:2005:706, para. 30; 8 December 2006 in Polyelectrolyte Producers Group v Commission and Council, C‑368/05 P, EU:C:2006:771, para. 46, and 12 July 2012 in Government of Gibraltar v Commission, C‑407/11 P, EU:C:2012:464, para. 45

2.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 37-39)

See:

Order of 12 July 2007 in Beau v Commission, T‑252/06 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2007:230, paras 45 and 46, and judgment of 18 June 2013 in Heath v ECB, T‑645/11 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2013:326, para. 101 and the case-law cited therein

3.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 41, 47, 55)

See:

Judgments of 19 September 2008 in Chassagne v Commission, T‑253/06 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2008:386, para. 54; 8 September 2009 in ETF v Landgren, T‑404/06 P, ECR, EU:T:2009:313, para. 140, and 16 December 2010 in Lebedef v Commission, T‑52/10 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2010:543, para. 35 and the case-law cited therein