Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 25 September 2008 - Guido Strack v Commission
(Staff case - Officials - Recruitment - Vacancy notice - Rejection of candidature - Action for annulment and for damages - Admissibility - Interest in bringing proceedings - Retirement - Preselection comittee - Composition - Temporal application of new provisions - Independence - Impartiality - Notification of a decision)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Guido Strack (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: J. Mosar initially, then by M. Wehrheim, then by F. Gengler, lastly by P. Goergen, lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Berscheid and H. Kraemer, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the Commission's decision to reject the applicant's candidature for the post of head of the 'Calls for tender and contracts' unit and to appoint another candidate to that post and, secondly, an application for damages
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
Dismisses the application for annulment of the decision to appoint Mr A to the post of head of the 'Calls for tender and contracts' unit of the Publications Office of the European Communities as inadmissible;
Annuls the decision to reject the candidature of Mr Strack for the post of head of the 'Calls for tender and contracts' unit of the Publications Office of the European Communities;
Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the applicant EUR 2000 by way of damages;
Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
Orders Mr Strack to bear half of his own costs;
Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay its own costs and half of the costs incurred by Mr Strack.
____________1 - OJ C 205, 20.08.2005. p. 28 (Case initially registered before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities under number T-225/05 and transferred to the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union by order of 15.12.2005).