Official Journal of the European Union

C 59/13

(Case T-275/13) (<span class="super">1</span>)

((Languages - Notice of open competition for the recruitment of administrators - Choice of second language from three languages - Language of communication with the candidates to the competition - Regulation No 1 - Article 1d(1), Article 27, first paragraph, and Article 28(f) of the Staff Regulations - Principle of non-discrimination - Proportionality))

(2016/C 059/13)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by P. Gentili and S. Fiorentino, avvocati dello Stato)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by J. Currall, B. Eggers and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, abogado del Estado)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and B. Beutler, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of notice of open competition EPSO/AD/249/13 to draw up two reserve lists for administrations to fill vacant posts in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics (OJ 2013 C 75 A, p. 1).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1)Annuls the notice of open competition EPSO/AD/249/13 to draw up two reserve lists for administrations to fill vacant posts in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics;

2)Orders the European Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the Italian Republic;

3)Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the Federal Republic of Germany to bear their own costs relating to their interventions.

(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 207, 20.7.2013.