Case T-218/17: Judgment of the General Court of 29 June 2018 — HF v Parliament (Civil Service — Contractual staff — Article 24 of the Staff Regulations — Request for assistance — Article 12a of the Staff Regulations — Psychological harassment — Advisory Committee dealing with harassment complaints — Decision rejecting the request for assistance — Right to be heard — Audi alteram partem rule — Refusal to disclose the opinion of the Advisory Committee and the minutes of the hearing of witnesses — Length of the administrative procedure — Reasonable time)
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Judgment of the General Court of 29 June 2018 — HF v Parliament
(Case T-218/17) ( 1 )
‛(Civil Service — Contractual staff — Article 24 of the Staff Regulations — Request for assistance — Article 12a of the Staff Regulations — Psychological harassment — Advisory Committee dealing with harassment complaints — Decision rejecting the request for assistance — Right to be heard — Audi alteram partem rule — Refusal to disclose the opinion of the Advisory Committee and the minutes of the hearing of witnesses — Length of the administrative procedure — Reasonable time)’2018/C 294/59Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: HF (represented by: A. Tymen, lawyer)
Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: E. Taneva and M. Ecker, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application on the basis of Article 270 TFEU seeking, firstly, the annulment of the decision of the Parliament of 3 June 2016 by which that institution’s authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment rejected the applicant’s request for assistance made on 11 December 2014 and, secondly, compensation for the loss which she allegedly suffered as a result of the illegalities in the handling of that request for assistance by the authority.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders the European Parliament to pay its own costs and to bear a quarter of the costs incurred by HF;
3.
Order HF to bear three-quarters of her own costs.
( 1 ) OJ C 178, 6.6.2017.
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