#62025TO0790EU Court annuls CdT recruitment rejection for lack of reasons
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This order cancels the Translation Centre’s decision not to move a candidate to the next stage of a recruitment process. The Court found that the Centre did not clearly explain why the application was rejected or whether the candidate failed the eligibility check or the scored pre-selection stage. For EU bodies running hiring processes, the practical message is simple: rejected candidates must receive enough information to understand the decision, including scores where scoring is used. Selection secrecy does not allow an agency to withhold basic results needed to explain a rejection.
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Key Changes
- Annuls the CdT selection committee’s decision rejecting the candidate before the selection stage
- Confirms that an administrative complaint was not required because the hiring authority could not change the selection committee’s decision
- Requires recruitment decisions to explain where and why a candidate was rejected, including disclosure of scores when scoring is used
Obligations
What this law requires
EU bodies conducting recruitment procedures must give rejected candidates enough reasons to understand why they were not advanced and to allow judicial review of the decision.
Where a recruitment vacancy notice uses separate eligibility and scored pre-selection stages, the rejection decision must indicate at which stage the candidate was rejected.
Where eligible candidates are scored during pre-selection, the candidate must be informed of the score obtained when the application is rejected; selection-board secrecy does not justify withholding that score.
A recruitment authority cannot remedy a complete failure to state reasons by supplying the missing reasoning for the first time before the EU Courts.
The General Court annulled the Translation Centre’s 8 August 2025 decision not to invite NX to the selection stage because the decision failed to state reasons.