Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 22 February 2006 - Standertskjöld-Nordenstam and Heyraud v Commission

(Joined Cases T-437/04 and T-441/04) ¹

(Officials - 'Second round' promotion - 2003 promotion procedure - Failure to include on the list of the officials selected for promotion to Grade A3 - Breach of Article 45 of the Staff Regulations and of the principle of equal treatment)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Holger Standertskjöld-Nordenstam (Waterloo, Belgium) (represented by: T. Demaseure, lawyer) and Jean-Claude Heyraud (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J. Currall and B. Berscheid, Agents)

Application for

Annulment of the Commission's decision not to include the applicants' names on the list of the officials selected for promotion to Grade A3 in the 'second round' of the 2003 promotion procedure

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

joins Cases T-437/04 and T-441/04 for the purposes of the judgment;

annuls the decisions of the Commission not to include the applicants' names on the list of the officials selected for promotion to Grade A3 in the 'second round' of the 2003 promotion procedure;

orders the Commission to pay the costs.

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¹ - OJ C 6, 8.1.2005.