Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 19 July 2016 — Stips v Commission

(Case F-131/15) (1)

((Civil Service - Member of the temporary staff paid from research and investment appropriations - Article 2(d) CEOS - Contract of indefinite duration - Reclassification in the higher grade - 2013 reclassification round - Closure of the round after 1 January 2014 - Entry into force of Regulation No 1023/2013 - Methods of accessing grade AD 13 - Application, by analogy, of Article 45(1) and of point 1 of Section A of Annex I of the Staff Regulations - Refusal to reclassify an AD 12 member of the temporary staff - Suitability for reclassification - Principles of legal certainty and non-retroactivity - Right to good administration))

(2016/C 364/46)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Adolf Stips (Besozzo, Italy) (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)

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

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision not to reclassify the applicant as grade AD 13 in the 2013 reclassification round.

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

1.	Annuls the decision of 21 January 2015, by which the European Commission did not reclassify Mr Adolf Stips as grade AD 13 in the 2013 reclassification round;

2.	Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Stips.

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(1)  OJ C 414, 14/12/2015, p. 45.