Order of the Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 7 April 2016 — Spadafora v Commission
(Case F-44/15) 1
(Civil Service — Officials — Post of Head of Unit — Vacancy notice — Selection procedure — Pre-selection panel — Interview with the pre-selection panel — Not included on the short-list of candidates proposed for a final interview with the Appointing Authority — Regularity of the selection procedure — Priority recruitment of a candidate having the nationality of a particular Member State — Conduct of the president of the pre-selection panel — Language discrimination — Claim for compensation — Article 81 of the Rules of Procedure)
Language of the case: Italian
Parties
Applicant: Sergio Spadafora (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium) (represented by: G. Belotti, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Berardis-Kayser and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the decision to appoint a person other than the applicant, who had been acting Head of Unit since the departure of the preceding Head of Unit, to the post of Head of Unit C4 (Legal Advice).
Operative part of the order
1. The action is dismissed as in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly unfounded.
2. Mr Sergio Spadafora shall bear his own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
____________1 OJ C 221, 6.7.2015, p. 27.