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Official Journal of the European Union

C 352/41

(Case T-474/18)

(2018/C 352/49)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Sebastian Veit (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: K. Kujath, lawyer)

Defendant: European Central Bank

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul the defendant’s decision of 3 January 2018 concerning the applicant’s classification with effect from 1 January 2018, in so far as it attributes to the applicant only salary step 17 in salary band F/G;

—annul the defendant’s decision of 25 May 2018 rejecting the applicant’s application to be attributed salary step 83 in salary band F/G with effect from 1 January 2018;

—order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The action is based on the following pleas in law:

1.Infringement of the principle of equal treatment

The first plea in law alleges that the defendant took only limited account of relevant professional experience in the case of internal candidates, in contrast to external candidates, who were in a comparable situation in an identical selection procedure.

2.Infringement of the principle of the general duty of care

The second plea in law alleges that the defendant, without objective justification, treated the applicant, as a member of its own staff, less favourably in the classification than it treated candidates who were not yet employed by it.