Aristides Vlachos v Court Of Justice Of The European Communities.: ECJ 13 Dec 1984

ECJ 1. While recruitment marks entry into a category or a service of the community institutions, promotion governs the advancement of the career thus begun within the category or service which the candidate has entered. The community institutions are therefore right to treat an official’s appointment to a higher career bracket following an internal competition as promotion and in that regard to apply the rules of the staff regulations on promotion properly so called. The official ‘promoted’ through that procedure may not be treated more favourably under the staff regulations than an official who has completed the required minimum period of service.
2. An official eligible for promotion who had to complete a probationary period before being established must, even after completion of the probationary period, complete the minimum period of service required by the staff regulations.

Citations:

C-21/83, [1984] EUECJ C-21/83

Links:

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Jurisdiction:

European

Employment

Updated: 27 May 2022; Ref: scu.215275