Judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) 3 June 2015

In Case T‑658/13 P, APPEAL against the judgment of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 30 September 2013 in BP v FRA (F‑38/12, ECR-SC, EU:F:2013:138), seeking to have that judgment set aside,

THE GENERAL COURT (Appeal Chamber), composed of M. Jaeger, President, M.E. Martins Ribeiro (Rapporteur) and M. van der Woude, Judges, Registrar: E. Coulon,

gives the following

Judgment

Legal context

Background to the dispute

Proceedings at first instance and judgment under appeal

The appeal

Procedure and forms of order sought

Law

The decision not to renew the appellant’s contract of service

– The first plea, alleging infringement of the principle of observance of the rights of defence, of the right to be heard and of the right of access to relevant information, enshrined in Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and distortion of the evidence

The reassignment decision

– The first ground of appeal, alleging an illegal assessment by the Tribunal of the second plea raised before it, alleging irregular and unilateral amendment of an essential element of the contract of service and a discrepancy between post and grade and distortion of the evidence

– The second ground of appeal, alleging infringement of the rights of defence by the Tribunal

The ground of appeal alleging, first, infringement of Article 87(2) and Article 88 of the Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal concerning costs and, secondly, breach of the duty to state reasons

The heads of claim seeking a ruling on the dispute

The claim for annulment

The claim for damages

Costs

1 Language of the case: English.