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Document 62015TJ0742

    Judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) of 19 July 2017.
    DD v European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
    Appeal — Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Contract of indefinite duration — Disciplinary penalty — Reprimand — Termination of contract — Right to be heard — Non-material harm.
    Case T-742/15 P.

    Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

    Judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) of 19 July 2017 —
    DD v FRA

    (Case T‑742/15 P)

    (Appeal — Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Contract of indefinite duration — Disciplinary penalty — Reprimand — Termination of contract — Right to be heard — Non-material harm)

    1. 

    Appeal — Pleas in law — Pleas seeking modification of the reasoning of a judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal — Criticism of grounds having no influence on the operative part of the judgment under appeal — Inadmissibility

    (Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 9)

    (see para. 36)

    2. 

    Appeal — Grounds — No precise criticism of a point of reasoning of the Civil Service Tribunal and no legal arguments in support of the appeal — Inadmissibility

    (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 194)

    (see para. 41)

    3. 

    Officials — Non-contractual liability of the institutions — Conditions — Unlawfulness — Damage — Causal link

    (see paras 48, 77)

    4. 

    Actions brought by officials — Actions for damages — Annulment of the illegal act in dispute — Whether appropriate reparation for non-material damage

    (Staff Regulations, Art. 91)

    (see paras 72, 83)

    5. 

    Appeal — Grounds — Review by the General Court of the assessment of the evidence made by the Civil Service Tribunal — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted — Ground of appeal alleging distortion of the clear sense of the evidence — Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and showing the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion

    (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 195(2))

    (see paras 84, 85)

    Re:

    APPEAL brought against the judgment of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 8 October 2015, DD v FRA (F‑106/13 and F‑25/14, EU:F:2015:118), seeking to have that judgment set aside in part.

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1. 

    Dismisses the appeal;

    2. 

    Orders DD to bear his own costs;

    3. 

    Orders the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) to bear its own costs.

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