Judgment of the General Court of 22 September 2021 – JR v Commission

(Case T-435/20) ¹

(Civil service – Officials – Recruitment – Internal competition COM/03/AD/18 (AD 6) – Decision not to include the applicant’s name on the reserve list for the competition – Obligation to state reasons – Secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings – Weighting of the component parts of a test laid down in the notice of competition)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: JR (represented by: L. Levi and A. Champetier, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Milanowska and I. Melo Sampaio, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU for the annulment of the decision of 15 April 2020 of the selection board for the internal competition COM/03/AD/18 (AD 6) – Administrators, rejecting the applicant’s request for review of the decision of that selection board of 16 December 2019 not to include the applicant’s name on the reserve list for that competition and, if needed, for the annulment of that latter decision.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Annuls the decision of 15 April 2020 of the selection board for the internal competition COM/03/AD/18 (AD 6) – Administrators not to include JR on the reserve list for the recruitment of administrators at grade AD 6 in the field of European public administration.

Orders the Commission to pay the costs.

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¹     OJ C 297, 7.9.2020.