Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — Italy v Commission
(Case T-295/13) 1
(Languages — Corrigendum to the notice of open competition for the recruitment of administrators — New competition procedures — Choice of second language from three languages — Regulation No 1 — Article 1d(1), Article 27 and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations — Principle of non-discrimination — Proportionality)
Language of the case: Italian
Parties
Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by P. Gentili and S. Fiorentino, avvocati dello Stato)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by J. Currall, B. Eggers and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents)
Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, abogado del Estado)
Re:
Application for annulment of the corrigendum to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/177/10 to constitute a reserve list from which to recruit administrators in the fields of European public administration, law, economics, audit and information and communication technology (OJ 2013 C 82 A, p.1), and corrigendum to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/178/10 and corrigendum to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/179/10 to constitute a reserve list from which to recruit administrators in the fields of, respectively, librarianship and information science and audiovisual, published in the Official Journal of the European Union C 82 A, of 21 March 2013 (OJ 2013 C 82 A, p. 1).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the corrigendum, published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 21 March 2013, to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/177/10 to constitute a reserve list from which to recruit administrators in the fields of European public administration, law, economics, audit and information and communication technology, and the corrigendum, published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 21 March 2013, to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/178/10 and corrigendum to notice of open competition EPSO/AD/179/10 to constitute a reserve list from which to recruit administrators in the fields of, respectively, librarianship and information science and audiovisual, in so far as their nature and content have been identified in paragraphs 68 to 70 of the present judgment;
Orders the European Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the Italian Republic;
Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs relating to its intervention.
____________1 OJ C 207, 20.7.2013.