Notice for the OJ

 

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 13 March 2003 in Case T-166/02: José Pedro Pessoa e Costa v Commission of the European Communities ¹

(Officials ( Decision to institute disciplinary proceedings ( Decision rejecting a request for transfer to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)

    (Language of the case: French)

In Case T-166/02: José Pedro Pessoa e Costa, official of the Commission of the European Communities, residing in Lisbon, represented by J.N. Louis, E. Marchal and A. Coolen, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Currall, F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and D. Waelbroeck) ( application for annulment, first, of the decision of the Commission of 3 July 2001 to institute disciplinary proceedings against the applicant and, second, of its decision of 23 July 2001 rejecting the request of the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction that the applicant be transferred to that body ( the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber), composed of K. Lenaerts, President, J. Azizi and M. Jaeger, Judges; D. Christensen, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 13 March 2003 in which it:

1.Annuls the decision of the Commission of 23 July 2001 rejecting the request of the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction that the applicant be transferred to that body.

2.Dismisses the remainder of the application as inadmissible.

3.Orders the Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, half of the costs incurred by the applicant.

4.Orders the applicant to bear half of his costs.

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¹ - (OJ No C 180, 27.7.02.