10.10.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 244/17

(Case F-71/09)

2009/C 244/29

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Paolo Caminiti (Tubize, Belgium) (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Application to annul the defendant’s decision to classify the applicant in Grade AST 9, step 4, with a multiplication factor equal to 1 and, consequently, the reinstatement of the applicant in Grade AST 9, step 2, retaining a multiplication factor of 1.071151.

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul the decision to classify the applicant in grade AST 9, step 4, with a multiplication factor equal to 1 contained in the applicant’s salary slip of March 2009;

—consequently, reinstate the applicant, with effect from 1 March 2009, in Grade AST 9, step 2, retaining a multiplication factor of 1.071151;

—order the full restructuring of the applicant’s career with retroactive effect from 1 March 2009 to the date of his classification in grade and step as thus corrected (including the valuation of his experience in his classification as thus corrected, his rights of advancement to a higher step and his pension rights), which includes the payment of default interest at the base rate fixed by the European Central Bank for its main refinancing operations, applicable during the period concerned, increased by two points, on all the sums corresponding to his classification as set out in the classification decision and the classification to which he should have been entitled until the date on which the decision on his corrected classification is taken; in the alternative, order the applicant to be granted promotion points corresponding to the conversion of the multiplication factor to a ‘time’ factor;

—order the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs.