Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2016 — Todorova Androva v Council and Others

(Case T-366/15 P) ¹

(Appeal — Civil Service — Officials — Promotion — 2011 promotion procedure — Non-inclusion on the list of officials eligible for promotion — Action at first instance dismissed– Article 45 of the Staff Regulations — Clause 4 of the Framework Agreement on fixed- term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Equal treatment — Obligation to state reasons — Burden of proof — Obligation on the court hearing the substantive application to investigate — Plea of illegality — Rule of correspondence between the complaint and the action before the EU Courts)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Appellant: Viara Todorova Androva (Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium) (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)

Other parties to the proceedings: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and M. Veiga, acting as Agents); European Commission (represented by: initially, J. Currall, G. Gattinara and A.-C. Simon, and subsequently G. Gattinara and A.-C. Simon, acting as Agents) and Court of Auditors (represented by: N. Scarfato, acting as Agent)

Intervener in support of the Council of the European Union : European Parliament (represented by: D. Nessaf and M. Dean, acting as Agents)

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union (Second Chamber) of 29 April 2015, Todorova Androva v Council (F-78/12, EU:F:2015:37), seeking to have that judgment set aside.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the appeal;

Orders Ms Viara Todorova Androva to bear her own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union and the European Commission;

Orders the European Parliament to bear its own costs.

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¹ OJ C 337, 12.10.2015.