Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 4 May 2005 by Dypna Mc Sweeney and Pauline Armstrong against the Commission of the European Communities

(Case T-184/05)

(Language of the case: French)

An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 4 May 2005 by Dypna Mc Sweeney, residing in Brussels, and Pauline Armstrong, residing in Overijse (Belgium), represented by Sébastien Orlandi, Xavier Martin, Albert Coolen, Jean Noël Louis and Etienne Marchal, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg.

The applicants claim that the Court should:

annul the decisions of 6 and 7 September 2004 refusing to admit the applicants to the EPSO/C/11/03 competition tests;

order the defendant to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The applicants participated in the EPSO/C/11/03 competition organised for the purposes of drawing up a reserve list of English-language secretaries at grade C5/C4. The selection board in that competition decided to exclude them from the tests of that competition, on the ground that their diplomas did not correspond to the level required by the competition notice.

In support of their action, the applicants submit that that decision infringes the competition notice and stems from a manifest error of assessment.

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