C-635/20 PEuropean Commission v Italian Republic and Kingdom of Spain

The court's own keywords

Appeal – Rules on languages – Notice of open competitions for the recruitment of administrators’ functions as investigators and team leaders – Knowledge of languages – Restriction of the choice of the second competition language to English, French and German – Language of communication with the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) – Regulation No 1 – Staff Regulations – Article 1d(1) – Difference in treatment based on language – Justification – Interests of the service – Requirement to recruit administrators who are ‘immediately operational’ – Judicial review – Standard of proof required.

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