31.8.2013
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 252/43
Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 19 June 2013 — Goetz v Committee of the Regions
(Case F-89/11) (1)
(Civil Service - Officials - Non-contractual liability - Action for damages - Admissibility - Point from which period to institute proceedings starts to run - OLAF investigation - Administrative investigation - Disciplinary proceedings before the Disciplinary Board - Obligation for the administration to act diligently - Length of disciplinary proceedings - Liability arising from the opening of disciplinary proceedings terminated without a sanction being imposed)
2013/C 252/73
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Charles Dieter Goetz (Linkebeek, Belgium) (represented by: N. Lhoëst and A.-A. Minet, lawyers)
Defendant: Committee of the Regions (represented by: M.J.C. Cañoto Argüelles, Agent, and by B. Cambier, lawyer)
Re:
Application for annulment of the decision of the Committee of the Regions which rejected the applicant’s request, under Article 90(1) of the Staff Regulations, seeking damages for the non-material and material damage allegedly suffered in connection with administrative and disciplinary proceedings.
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
1.
Dismisses the action.
2.
Orders Mr Goetz to bear his own costs and to pay the costs of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.
(1) OJ C 347, 26.11.2011, p. 45.
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