#62025TO0355EU General Court Rejects Challenge to EUPOL COPPS Performance Improvement Plan Form
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The General Court dismissed a challenge brought by a national staff member seconded to EUPOL COPPS over a form that closed her Performance Improvement Plan and did not recommend extending her secondment. The court found that the form was only an intermediate step in an internal performance process, not a final decision that could be challenged on its own. For EU missions and seconded staff, the practical point is that internal performance documents may not be directly contestable unless they produce final legal effects.
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Key Changes
- Confirms that a Performance Improvement Plan closing form is not automatically a challengeable EU act.
- Treats the document as an intermediate step in an internal performance process.
- Limits direct court challenges unless the measure has final legal effects.
Obligations
What this law requires
The General Court concluded that the 19 March 2025 form closing the applicant’s Performance Improvement Plan was an intermediate internal performance-management measure and was not independently open to challenge under Article 263 TFEU.
The applicant challenged an internal EUPOL COPPS Performance Improvement Plan finalisation form that did not recommend extending her secondment, but the Court found it did not produce final legal effects by itself.
Internal performance documents in EU mission procedures may be treated as non-contestable intermediate steps unless they definitively alter the legal position of the person concerned.