Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Plenary Formation) of 5 May 2010 - Bouillez and Others v Council

(Case F-53/08) ¹

(Staff cases - Officials - Promotion - 2007 promotion procedure -Interest in bringing proceedings - Promotion decision - Liste of promoted officials - Consideration of the comparative merits - Criterion of the level of responsibility held - Application for annulment of the promotion decisions - Balance of interests

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Vincent Bouillez (Overijse, Belgium) and Others (represented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis, E. Marchal, lawyers)

Defendant: Council of the European Union

Interveners: Eliza Niniou and Maria-Béatrice Postiglione Branco, residing at Schaerbeek (Belgium) and at Kraainem (Belgium) respectively, (represented by: T. Bontinck and S. Woog initially, and then by T. Bontinck and S. Greco, lawyers)

and

Maria De Jesus Cabrita and Marie-France Liegard, officials of the Council of the European Union, residing in Brussels (Belgium), (represented by: N. Lhoëst initially, then by N. Lhoëst and L. Delhaye, lawyers)

Re:

Annulment of the decisions of the appointing authority not to promote the applicants to grade AST 7 under the 2007 promotion procedure

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

Annuls the decisions by which the Council of the European Union refused to promote Mr Bouillez and Van Neyghem and Ms Wagner-Leclercq to grade AST 7 under the 2007 promotion procedure;

Dismisses the remainder of the claims in the actions brought by Mr Bouillez and Van Neyghem and by Ms Wagner-Leclercq;

Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs;

Orders the interveners to bear their own costs.

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¹ - OJ C 183, 19.7.2008, p. 35.