#62024CJ0623EU Court Upholds EPSO Reserve List Decisions in International Cooperation Recruitment Case
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The judgment rejects an appeal by candidates who challenged their exclusion from the reserve list in an EU civil service competition for administrator roles in international cooperation and aid management. The case focused on whether the repeated written tests and the selection board’s decisions treated candidates fairly and whether the candidates’ court claims matched their earlier administrative complaints. The practical impact is narrow. It mainly affects EU institutions, EPSO competition candidates, and HR teams handling EU recruitment disputes. Candidates challenging recruitment decisions must make sure their administrative complaint clearly covers the claims they later bring to court.
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Key Changes
- Confirms the dismissal of candidates’ challenge to exclusion from the EPSO reserve list
- Reinforces that EU recruitment disputes must be built on claims already raised in the administrative complaint
- Leaves the selection board’s decisions in place for the EPSO international cooperation administrator competition
Obligations
What this law requires
Candidates challenging an EU recruitment decision must ensure that the claims brought before the EU courts correspond to the subject matter and pleas raised in their prior administrative complaint under the Staff Regulations.
EU recruitment competitions must observe the principle of equal treatment when organising repeated written tests and deciding whether candidates are included on a reserve list.
The Court rejected the appeal and upheld the General Court’s dismissal of the action against the selection board decisions not to include the appellants on the EPSO/AD/380/19 reserve list.