25.5.2020

Official Journal of the European Union

C 175/14

(Case T-215/18) (*)

(Civil service - ECB staff - Appraisal exercise - Appraisal report for 2016 - Author of the appraisal report - Manifest error of assessment - Sick leave - Redeployment - Remuneration - Decision not to award a salary increase - Competence of the author of an act adversely affecting a party - Liability)

(2020/C 175/15)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: QB (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)

Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: F. von Lindeiner and M. Rötting, acting as Agents, and B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking, first, annulment of the applicant’s appraisal report for 2016 and of the decision of the ECB of 23 May 2017 not to award her a salary increase and, in so far as necessary, annulment of the decision of the ECB of 18 September 2017 and of its implicit decision rejecting, respectively, the applicant’s administrative appeal and claim, and, second, compensation in respect of the harm that the applicant allegedly suffered.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Annuls the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 23 May 2017 not to award QB a salary increase;

2.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.Orders QB to bear two thirds of her own costs;

4.Orders the ECB to bear its own costs and to pay one third of the costs incurred by QB.

(*) Language of the case: French.