Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2021 – HM v Commission
(Case T-587/16 RENV) 1
(Civil service – Officials – Recruitment – Competition notice EPSO/AST-SC/03/15 – Refusal to allow participation in the assessment tests – Request for review – Refusal to forward that request to the selection board for the open competition on the grounds that it was out of time – Division of competences between EPSO and the competition selection board – Interest in bringing proceedings)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicant: HM (represented by: H. Tettenborn, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Bohr and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application on the basis of Article 270 TFEU for the annulment of the decision of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) of 17 August 2015 not to take into account the request for review of the decision of the selection board not to allow the applicant to participate in the next stage of Competition EPSO/AST-SC/03/15-3.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decision of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) of 17 August 2015 not to take into account the request for review of the decision of the selection board not to allow the applicant to participate in the next stage of Competition EPSO/AST-SC/03/15-3;
Orders the European Commission to pay the costs relating to the initial proceedings before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union (F-17/16) and the General Court (T-587/16), the proceedings before the Court of Justice in Case C-70/19 P and the present referral proceedings (T-587/16 RENV).
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1 OJ C 191, 30.5.2016 (case initially registered before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union under number F-17/16 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).