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Document 62020TJ0453

    Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 June 2021.
    KZ v European Commission.
    Civil service – Officials – 2019 promotion exercise – Decision not to promote – General provisions for implementing Article 45 of the Staff Regulations – Plea of illegality – Leave on personal grounds – Ineligibility for promotion.
    Case T-453/20.

    Court reports – general

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2021:339

     Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 June 2021 –
    KZ v Commission

    (Case T‑453/20)

    (Civil service – Officials – 2019 promotion exercise – Decision not to promote – General provisions for implementing Article 45 of the Staff Regulations – Plea of illegality – Leave on personal grounds – Ineligibility for promotion)

    1. 

    Officials – Promotion – Applicable rules – Formulation and implementation – Administration’s discretion – Judicial review – Limits

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 45)

    (see para. 39)

    2. 

    Officials – Promotion – Conditions – System established by the Commission – Ineligibility of an official on leave on personal grounds on the date of the adoption of the promotion decision – Whether permissible – Official who has been active during the period taken into account for the promotion exercise – Irrelevant – Infringement of the principles of legal certainty, equal treatment and proportionality – Absence

    (Staff Regulations of Officials, Arts 36 to 42c and 45)

    (see paras 40, 42, 43, 46-52, 55-60, 63)

    Re:

    Application under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the decision of the Commission, published in Administrative Notices No 32-2019 of 14 November 2019, not to include the applicant’s name on the list of officials promoted in the 2019 promotion exercise.

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1. 

    Dismisses the action;

    2. 

    Orders KZ to pay the costs.
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