Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 19 July 2004 by Carlo Pagliacci against the Commission of the European Communities

(Case T-307/04)

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 19 July 2004 by Carlo Pagliacci, resident in Brussels, represented by Sébastien Orlandi, Albert Coolen, Jean-Noël Louis and Etienne Marchal, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg.

The applicant claims that the Court should:

-    annul the decision of the jury in competition COM/A/1/02 awarding the applicant insufficient marks for him to be placed on the list of successful candidates;

-    order the Commission to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments:

In support of his action, the applicant alleges an infringement of the competition notice, since a number of candidates placed on the list of those to have been successful did not possess the prescribed qualification, directly related to the sphere of agriculture. He also submits that one of the members of the jury worked with some of the candidates on a daily basis. In his submission, that fact placed the relevant candidates in a special situation by comparison with the other candidates and consequently entailed an infringement of the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination. Since it is alleged that the appointing authority had not been made aware of this situation, the applicant also relies on an infringement of Article 14 of the Staff Regulations on that basis.

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