ZL v EUIPO (Civil service - Recruitment - Judgment)

(Civil service – Recruitment – Notice of competition – Decision not to place the applicant’s name on the reserve list for the competition – Obligation to state reasons – Rejection of the request for access to the multiple-choice questions asked in the admission tests – Secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings)

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by A. Lukošiūtė and K. Tóth, acting as Agents, assisted by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer,

APPLICATION under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment, first, of the decision of 7 March 2018 of the selection board for competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 – Administrators (AD 6) in the field of intellectual property rejecting the applicant’s request for review of that selection board’s decision of 1 December 2017 not to place her name on the reserve list drawn up with a view to the recruitment of administrators by EUIPO and, secondly, of EUIPO’s decision of 27 June 2018 rejecting her complaints,

composed of S. Gervasoni, President, P. Nihoul (Rapporteur) and J. Martín y Pérez de Nanclares, Judges,

On 12 January 2017, the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) published in the Official Journal of the European Union the notice of open competition EUIPO/AD/01/17 – Administrators (AD 6) in the field of intellectual property (OJ 2017 C 9A, p. 1; ‘the notice of competition’). The purpose of that competition, organised by EPSO, was to draw up a reserve list with a view to the recruitment of administrators by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).