#62024CJ0622EU Court judgment on repeated EPSO written tests and equal treatment
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This judgment deals with how EPSO handled written tests after technical problems in an EU civil service competition for administrators working on international cooperation and aid to non-EU countries. Candidates were allowed either to keep their first test results or retake the written tests and give up the earlier results. The case matters mainly for EU job candidates and public recruiters. It tests whether repeat-test arrangements respected equal treatment and whether EPSO could lawfully refuse to place a candidate on the reserve list after the review process.
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Key Changes
- Reviews EPSO’s response to technical problems during written civil service tests
- Addresses whether candidates were treated equally when given a choice to keep or retake test results
- Confirms the importance of transparent and consistent handling of reserve-list decisions in EU recruitment
Obligations
What this law requires
This Court judgment concerns whether EPSO’s arrangements allowing affected candidates either to keep their original written-test results or retake the written tests while waiving the earlier results complied with the EU principle of equal treatment.
The contested measure was the EPSO selection board’s decision of 15 July 2022, after review, not to include the appellant’s name on the reserve list for Open Competition EPSO/AD/380/19.
The appeal sought annulment of the General Court judgment dismissing the candidate’s challenge to the selection board’s reserve-list decision; the document does not establish new legislative compliance duties for private entities.