Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 24 May 2004 by C. Van der Haegen against the European Economic and Social Committee.

(Case T-189/04)

Language of the case: French

An action against the European Economic and Social Committee was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 24 May 2004 by C. van der Haegen, residing at Brussels, represented by S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and E. Marchal, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg.

The applicant claims that the Court should:

-    annul the decision of the Selection Board for internal competition CESE/C/02/03 not to admit the applicant to the competition tests;

-    order the defendant to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments:

The competition notice at issue required as an entry condition, among others, that each candidate should have five years' working experience in the European institutions, of which at least four years should be with the Economic and Social Committee and/or the Committee of the Regions. For the first part of the competition, for which the applicant lodged his candidature, the competition notice required, in addition, that three years of the total experience should be in relation to the type of functions covered by that part.

The applicant, who has acquired rich and varied working experience in different European institutions, claims in support of his action that the competition notice is illegal and infringes Article 27 of the Staff Regulations and the principles of equality of treatment and of non-discrimination, since nothing can justify the requirement of working experience acquired solely with the Economic and Social Committee and/or the Committee of the Regions, to the exclusion of the other European institutions.

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