1.2.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 31/21


Order of the Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 13 December 2013 — Van Oost, Ibarra de Diego, Theodoridis and Hotz v Commission

(Joined Cases F-137/12, F-138/12, F-139/12 and F-141/12) (1)

(Civil service - Officials - Promotion - Certification procedure 2010-2011 - Exclusion from the list of certified officials - Amicable settlement on the initiative of the Tribunal - Time-limit for lodging a complaint - Complaint out of time - Concept of excusable error - Diligence required of a normally well-informed official - Information obtained by telephone - Proof - Inadmissibility)

2014/C 31/36

Language of the cases: French

Parties

Applicants: Fabrice Van Oost (Ville Pommerœul, Belgium), Maria Belén Ibarra de Diego (Alicante, Spain), Nicolaos Theodoridis (Soignies, Belgium) and Margarita Hotz (Brussels, Belgium), (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Berscheid and C. Berardis-Kayser, acting as Agents)

Re:

Applications for annulment of the decisions of EPSO not to include the applicants in the list of persons who have passed the tests at the end of the training programme which is part of the certification procedure, and claims for damages.

Operative part of the order

1.

Cases F-137/12, F-138/12 and F-139/12 are removed from the Register of the Tribunal.

2.

The parties in Cases F-137/12, F-138/12 and F-139/12 shall bear their own costs in accordance with their agreement.

3.

The action in Case F-141/12 is dismissed as inadmissible.

4.

Ms Hotz shall bear her own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission in Case F-141/12.


(1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013, pp. 75 and 76.