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Document 62018TJ0684

    Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 October 2019.
    ZV v European Commission.
    Civil service — Officials — Recruitment — Notice of vacancy — Commission’s deputy mediator — Procedure — Assessment of the merits.
    Case T-684/18.

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2019:748

     Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 October 2019 –
    ZV v Commission

    (Case T‑684/18)

    (Civil service — Officials — Recruitment — Notice of vacancy — Commission’s deputy mediator — Procedure — Assessment of the merits)

    1. 

    Actions brought by officials — Prior administrative complaint — Correspondence between the complaint and the application — Same subject matter and legal basis — Submissions and arguments not made in the complaint but closely related to it — Admissibility

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 90 and 91)

    (see para. 20)

    2. 

    Actions brought by officials — Prior administrative complaint — Subject matter — Correspondence between the complaint and the application — Reliance on infringement of essential procedural requirements at any stage of the proceedings — Whether permissible — Conflict of interests not constituting an infringement of essential procedural requirements

    (see para. 25)

    3. 

    Actions brought by officials — Pleas in law — Misuse of powers — Conflict of interests — Subjective nature which precludes review by the Court of its own motion — Inadmissibility — Subjectivity of criteria set out in a vacancy notice — Admissibility

    (Art. 270 TFUE)

    (see paras 29-31)

    4. 

    Actions brought by officials — Plea of illegality — Need for a close link between the contested measure and the allegedly unlawful earlier measure — Dispute as to the lawfulness of a vacancy notice at the time of an action brought against a rejection of candidature restricted to the provisions which formed the basis for that rejection

    (Art. 277 TFEU; Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 91)

    (see para. 34)

    5. 

    Actions brought by officials — Pleas in law — Misuse of powers — Concept

    (see para. 35)

    6. 

    Officials — Vacancy notice — Determination of minimum qualifications required for the post to be filled — Discretion of the appointing authority — Scope

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 29)

    (see para. 38)

    7. 

    Officials — Vacancy — Post of Commission’s deputy mediator — Consideration of the comparative merits of candidates — Involvement of a selection board — Whether permissible

    (see para. 59)

    8. 

    Officials — Decision adversely affecting an official — Rejection of candidature — Obligation to state reasons — Scope — Observance of the secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 25(2) and 90(2))

    (see paras 72-74)

    9. 

    Officials — Vacancy — Consideration of the comparative merits of candidates — Administration’s discretion — Judicial review — Limits

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 29(1)(a))

    (see paras 82, 83)

    Re:

    Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decision of 8 February 2018 appointing A as the Commission’s deputy mediator and the note of 12 February 2018 by which the Commission informed the applicant of the outcome of the selection procedure.

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1. 

    Dismisses the action;

    2. 

    Orders ZV to bear her own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.

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