ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT (Appeal Chamber)

2 October 2014

Case T‑447/13 P

Luigi Marcuccio

v

European Commission

(Appeal — Civil service — Officials — Reimbursement of recoverable costs — Article 92(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal — Availability of a parallel remedy — Appeal in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly unfounded)

Appeal:      against the order of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (single Judge) of 18 June 2013 in Marcuccio v Commission (F‑143/11, ECR-SC, EU:F:2013:81), seeking to have that order set aside.

Held:      The appeal is dismissed. Mr Luigi Marcuccio is to bear his own costs and is ordered to pay those incurred by the European Commission in the present case.

Summary

1.      Judicial proceedings — Costs — Taxation — Specific procedure excluding the use of proceedings for liability

(Staff Regulations, Arts 90 and 91; Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal, Art. 92(1))

2.      Judicial proceedings — Assignment of cases within the Civil Service Tribunal — Assignment to the Judge-Rapporteur in a Chamber of three Judges as single Judge — Designation not mentioned in the case file — Fact not capable of calling the assignment into question

(Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal, Art. 14(1))

1.      The specific procedure for seeking taxation of costs, provided for in Article 92(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal, excludes any claim for the same sums, or sums expended for the same purposes, in connection with proceedings brought under Articles 90 and 91 of the Staff Regulations.

(see para. 42)

See:

judgment of 11 July 2007 in Schneider Electric v Commission, T‑351/03, ECR, EU:T:2007:212, para. 297, partially set aside on appeal by judgment of 16 July 2009 in Commission v Schneider Electric, C‑440/07 P, ECR, EU:C:2009:459; and order of 15 July 2011 in Marcuccio v Commission, T‑366/10 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2011:394, para. 27

2.      In a case assigned to a Chamber of three Judges of the Civil Service Tribunal, which designates its Judge-Rapporteur to hear and determine the case as a single Judge in accordance with Article 14(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Tribunal, where the name of the Judge-Rapporteur sitting in the Chamber prior to the decision to refer the case to a single Judge is not stated in the documents in the case at first instance, it may not thereby be inferred that the Judge-Rapporteur from the Chamber of three Judges has not been designated as the single Judge.

(see para. 64)

See:

order of 19 June 2014 in Marcuccio v Commission, T‑503/13 P, ECR-SC, EU:T:2014:596, para. 15