Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2020 –Teeäär v ECB

(Case T-547/18) (1)

(Civil service - ECB staff - Programme of support for transition to a career outside the ECB - Rejection of an application to take part in that programme - Eligibility conditions - Different lengths of service required depending on whether a staff member is in a single salary band or a salary broadband - Allocation to a salary band on the basis of the type of employment - Equal treatment - Proportionality - Manifest error of assessment)

(2020/C 175/19)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Raivo Teeäär (Tallinn, Estonia) (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)

Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: D. Camilleri Podestà and F. Malfrère, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union for, first, annulment of the decision of the ECB of 27 February 2018 rejecting the applicant’s application for the pilot programme of support for transition to a career outside the ECB and, in so far as necessary, the ECB’s decision of 3 July 2018 rejecting the applicant’s special appeal against the abovementioned decision of 27 February 2018 and, secondly, compensation for the damage he allegedly suffered as a result of that decision.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.	Dismisses the action;

2.	Orders Mr Raivo Teeäär to pay the costs.

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(1)  OJ C 427, 26.11.2018.