Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — Italy v Commission
(Case T-275/13) 1
(Languages — Notice of open competition for the recruitment of administrators — Choice of second language from three languages — Language of communication with the candidates to the competition — Regulation No 1 — Article 1d(1), Article 27, first paragraph, 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)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and B. Beutler, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of notice of open competition EPSO/AD/249/13 to draw up two reserve lists for administrations to fill vacant posts in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics (OJ 2013 C 75 A, p. 1).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the notice of open competition EPSO/AD/249/13 to draw up two reserve lists for administrations to fill vacant posts in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics;
Orders the European Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the Italian Republic;
Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the Federal Republic of Germany to bear their own costs relating to their interventions.
____________1 OJ C 207, 20.7.2013.