Brussels, 09/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - Once the European Parliament has deemed a petition submitted by an official to be admissible, it has broad discretion as to the next step to be taken. This discretion cannot be subjected to the controls of the EU judges, the Court of Justice of the EU states in a ruling (case C-261/13) returned on Tuesday 9 December.
A former Parliament official sent the institution a petition in respect of his staff report for 2005. The petitions committee declared...