Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 - Centeno Mediavilla and Others v Commission
(Staff cases - Officials - Appointment - Entry into force of the new Staff Regulations - Transitional rules on classification of the grade on recruitment - Article 12 to Annex XIII of the new Staff Regulations)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Isabel Clara Centeno Mediavilla (Seville, Spain); Delphine Fumey (Evere, Belgium); Eva Gerhards (Brussels, Belgium); Iona M. S. Hamitlon (Brussels); Raymond Hill (Brussels); Jean Huby (Brussels); Patrick Klein (Brussels); Domenico Lombardi (Brussels); Thomas Millar (London, United Kingdom); Miltiadis Moraitis (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium); Ansa Norman Palmer (Brussels); Nicola Robinson (Brussels); François-Xavier Rouxel (Brussels); Marta Silva Mendes (Brussels); Peter van den Hul (Tervuren, Belgium); Fritz Von Nordheim Nielsen (Hoeilaart, Belgium); and Michaël Zouridakis (Brussels) (represented by: initially, G. Vandersanden, L. Levi and A. Finchelstein, and subsequently, G. Vandersanden and L. Levi, lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J. Currall and H. Kraemer, acting as Agents)
Party intervening in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: initially, M. Arpio Santacruz, M. Sims and and I. Sulce, and subsequently by M. Arpio Santacruz and and I. Sulce, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the decisions appointing the applicants as probationary officials, in so far as they fix their classification in the grade on the basis of the transitional provisions in Article 12(3) of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities, as amended by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 of 22 March 2004 (OJ 2004 L 124, p. 1)
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the application;
orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay half the costs incurred by the applicants;
orders the applicants to bear half the costs incurred by them;
orders the Council to bear its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 93, 16.4 2005.