Choose the experimental features you want to try

This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website

Document 62017TJ0153

    Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 19 September 2019.
    FV v Council of the European Union.
    Civil service — Officials — Staff reports — 2014 and 2015 appraisal exercises — Interest in bringing proceedings — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment — Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials.
    Case T-153/17.

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2019:622

     Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 19 September 2019 –
    FV v Council

    (Case T‑153/17 RENV)

    (Civil service — Officials — Staff reports — 2014 and 2015 appraisal exercises — Interest in bringing proceedings — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment — Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials)

    1. 

    Actions brought by officials — Interest in bringing proceedings — Action for annulment of a staff report — Official whose service has terminated — Interest in bringing proceedings retained — Condition

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 43, 90 and 91)

    (see paras 35, 36)

    2. 

    Officials — Reports procedure — Staff report — Appraisal less favourable than the previous appraisal — Obligation to state reasons — Scope

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 43)

    (see paras 49-52, 59)

    3. 

    Officials — Reports procedure — Staff report — Discretion of the assessors — Judicial review — Limits

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 43)

    (see paras 70-72)

    4. 

    Officials — Administration’s duty to have regard for the interests of officials — Scope — Taking into consideration of official’s interests

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 24)

    (see para. 90)

    Re:

    Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the applicant’s staff reports for the periods from 1 January to 31 December 2014 and from 1 January to 31 December 2015, which were adopted definitively on 5 December 2016.

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1. 

    dismisses the action;

    2. 

    orders FV to bear her own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union.

    Top