Orders nº T-727/18 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, September 20, 2019

• Resolution Date: September 20, 2019
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-727/18

(Interim measures - Civil service - Inadmissibility)

In Case T-727/18 R,

ZW, represented by T. Petsas, lawyer

applicant,

v

European Investment Bank (EIB),

defendant,

APPLICATION pursuant to Articles 278 and 279 TFEU for the grant of interim measures to suspend or to extend various time limits and to produce documents,

THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL COURT

makes the following

Order

Background to the dispute, procedure and forms of order sought

1 The applicant, ZW, applied for a post [confidential](1) at the European Investment Bank (EIB) [confidential].

2 By email of 3 March 2017, the EIB informed the applicant of the appointment of another candidate to the abovementioned post [confidential].

3 By application lodged at the Court Registry on 6 December 2018, the applicant applied for legal aid.

4 On 5 April 2019 the EIB explained, among other things, why it did not choose the applicant for the post of [confidential].

5 By order of the President of the General Court of 29 April 2019, T-727/18 AJ, the application for legal aid was dismissed.

6 On 25 June 2019, the EIB rejected the applicant’s request for conciliation of 22 May 2019.

7 On 28 June 2019, the EIB stated that the refusal to enter into a procedure of conciliation was the response to the request made by the applicant on 22 May 2019.

8 By application lodged at the Court Registry on 1 July 2019, the applicant made another application for legal aid, which was registered as Case T-447/19 AJ.

9 Following the complaints submitted by the applicant to the EIB Complaints Mechanism (‘the EIB CM’), the EIB sent, on 12 August 2019, the Conclusions Report to the applicant.

10 On 22 August 2019, the EIB submitted its observations in case T-447/19 AJ.

11 By application lodged at the Court Registry on 17 June 2019, the applicant brought an action for annulment of the decision of 3 March 2017. In this action for annulment, the applicant made a number of procedural requests.

12 By a separate document lodged at the Court Registry on 28 August 2019, the applicant brought the present application for interim measures, in which it claims, in essence, that the President of the General Court should:

- ‘order the suspension of the time limit to modify the application to take account of the Decision of 12 August 2019 until the production of the full text of the regulations (if any other than the EIB Staff Regulations), internal documents and practices referred to in paragraph 3.2.1 of the EIB CM Conclusions Report in case SG/H/2019/02’;

- ‘order the extension of that time limit to take account of the time elapsed since 12 August 2019 when the contested decision was sent to the applicant’;

- ‘order the extension of the time limit for challenging the measures referred to, expressly or by implication, in the EIB CM Conclusions Report in case SG/H/2019/02 until the expiry of the time limit to modify the application to take account of the Decision of 12 August 2019’;

- ‘order the extension of the time limit for challenging the Decision of 22 August 2019 until the expiry of the time limit to modify the application to take account of the Decision of 12 August 2019’;

- ‘order the extension of the time limit for bringing an action against the Decisions of 28 June...