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  • Judgment 1542


    81st Session, 1996
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 6

    Extract:

    "A complaint is receivable only if it is about an individual official's status as an employee of the organisation, not about the collective interests of trade unionists." Insofar as the present complaint purports to be made on behalf of a trade union it is irreceivable.

    Keywords:

    cause of action; competence of tribunal; complainant; complaint; contract; locus standi; receivability of the complaint; staff representative; staff union; status of complainant;

    Consideration 5

    Extract:

    "This complaint, which seeks the grant of staff union facilities [...], does concern the exercise of the freedom of association that Article 30 of the Service Regulations guarantees. So the Tribunal is competent ratione materiae under Article II(5) and (6)(a) of its Statute, whereby it is open to any official - even one whose employment has ceased - who alleges breach in substance or in form of the Staff Regulations."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II (5) AND (6)(A) OF THE STATUTE
    Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 30 OF THE EPO SERVICE REGULATIONS

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; complainant; complaint; facilities; freedom of association; iloat statute; locus standi; receivability of the complaint; staff regulations and rules; staff representative; staff union; staff union activity; status of complainant; vested competence;



  • Judgment 1520


    81st Session, 1996
    World Tourism Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 4

    Extract:

    The Organization objects "that the complainants are just acting as a front for the Staff Association and fall foul of the precedents that declare complaints by such associations to be irreceivable: see for example Judgment 911. [The Tribunal finds that] the complainants have filed complaints in their own name and are quite free to claim rights as officials of the WTO by the means at their disposal."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 911

    Keywords:

    case law; competence of tribunal; locus standi; receivability of the complaint; staff representative; staff union;



  • Judgment 1516


    81st Session, 1996
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 12

    Extract:

    "The complainant wants the Tribunal to 'declare that UNESCO has failed to act and itself make the final determination [regarding the degree of her invalidity] that the organization has for years been refusing' her. Having put up with years of dilatoriness and prevarication,she is understandably anxious to have her entitlements speedily determined. Being unable, however, to rule on the medical aspects of her case, the Tribunal has no choice but to send the case back to the organization for completion of the process of review in keeping with the rules."

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; expert inquiry; iloat statute; invalidity; judicial review; medical board; medical examination; medical opinion; rate;



  • Judgment 1509


    81st Session, 1996
    United Nations Industrial Development Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 16

    Extract:

    When the complainant lodged a claim to reinstatement "he was neither a serving nor a former official of UNIDO, to which he was no more than an outside applicant for employment and whose decision was in fact a refusal to recruit him. That decision raises no question of non-observance of the terms of appointment of an official of UNIDO, or of its Staff Regulations. So again the Tribunal may not entertain the claim."

    Keywords:

    appointment; breach; candidate; competence of tribunal; competition; complainant; contract; external candidate; locus standi; official; refusal; reinstatement; staff regulations and rules; status of complainant;

    Consideration 13

    Extract:

    "The fact that UNIDO was administering the [joint UN and UNIDO service in which the complainant was working] made neither the complainant one of its officials nor the organization a party to the contract of employment. According to his letters of appointment the complainant was subject to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules of the United Nations, not of UNIDO. And even if in administering the service UNIDO did apply its own Staff Regulations to the complainant he did not on that account become a member of its staff. So any complaint by him that UNDO failed to apply, or misapplied, its Staff Regulations to him is not within the Tribunal's competence."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE 11 OF THE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    applicable law; competence of tribunal; contract; iloat statute; locus standi; non official; official; rule of another organisation; staff regulations and rules; status of complainant;

    Consideration 12

    Extract:

    "Article II(5) empowers the Tribunal to hear a complaint which an official of an international organisation that has duly recognised its jurisdiction has filed and which alleges non-observance of either the terms of the official's appointment or the Staff Regulations. As the Tribunal said in Judgment 231 [...], those are 'two conditions which in practice coincide'. The reference to 'Staff Regulations' means those of the organisation of which a complainant is or was an official and does not include the Staff Regulations of any other."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II(5) OF THE STATUTE
    ILOAT Judgment(s): 231

    Keywords:

    applicable law; breach; case law; competence of tribunal; contract; declaration of recognition; iloat statute; locus standi; official; rule of another organisation; staff regulations and rules; status of complainant;

    Consideration 14

    Extract:

    "The Tribunal's competence is determined by the provisions of its Statute. Neither the ruling by the Joint Appeals bBoard on its own competence nor the Director-General's endorsement or acquiescence can give the Tribunal jurisdiction which its Statute does not."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II OFTHE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    competence; competence of tribunal; executive head; iloat statute; internal appeals body; recommendation;



  • Judgment 1456


    79th Session, 1995
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 31

    Extract:

    The Tribunal "may not order the organisation to negotiate with a member State or set the objectives of any such negotiation."

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; judgment of the tribunal; member state; organisation; tribunal;



  • Judgment 1451


    79th Session, 1995
    Universal Postal Union
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 18

    Extract:

    "In Judgment 1932 - submits the [organisation] - the Tribunal held under 18 and 24 that [...] a suit, [filed in the general interests of the civil service,] of which the hallmark is action by staff associations or agents professing to represent them, does not form part of the system of individual appeal that the organisations which have recognised the Tribunal's jurisdiction commonly provide for in their rules and that the Tribunal's own Statute contemplates. The Tribunal need not revert to that case law since this is not such a complaint. It has been filed by several officials with the commendable aim of making the proceedings simpler, and each of them is defending his own individual interests, even though they are the same as the others'. The objection [to receivability for being a 'collective' complaint] fails."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1392

    Keywords:

    case law; competence of tribunal; complainant; complaint; iloat statute; internal appeal; locus standi; receivability of the complaint; staff regulations and rules; staff representative; staff union;

    Consideration 30

    Extract:

    "The reinstatement of the status quo by the quashing of the decision [to amend the rules of the provident fund so as to confer sole jurisdiction on a national tribunal] restores a situation which is quite consistent with the requirement of rational division of jurisdiction in the international context. Each of the jurisdictions that may be competent - the [national] tribunal and this Tribunal - will be able to determine its own competence according to the material rules on conflict. That was what the Tribunal held in Judgment 1258 on a case in which there was similar conflict of jurisdiction: it said under 4 that it was for each court to rule on its own competence."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1258

    Keywords:

    applicable law; case law; competence; competence of tribunal; domestic law; general principle; municipal court;

    Consideration 20

    Extract:

    "The [amendment in question] strikes out of the terms of employment ipso facto the safeguard of international judicial review and vests jurisdiction in municipal courts instead. The amendment brings about an immediate and almost irreversible change in the system of appeal. So [...] every staff member has an actual and present interest in having light shed on the matter. The Tribunal affords guarantees of a system of international law within the bounds of its competence: see Judgments 1265, under 24, and 1328, under 13. It would therefore be wrong to deny the staff the right of appeal on the grounds that the impugned decision is general in purport."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1265, 1328

    Keywords:

    amendment to the rules; case law; cause of action; competence of tribunal; complaint; general decision; internal appeal; municipal court; receivability of the complaint; right of appeal; safeguard; staff regulations and rules; tribunal;

    Consideration 27

    Extract:

    "In this case there are close enough connections with both municipal and international law to warrant recognition of both jurisdictions, each for different issues. A staff member may therefore go to whatever tribunal he deems competent, and any tribunal with which suit is filed will determine whether the material issues of the particular case make it the most suitable jurisdiction. Such is the universally acknowledged doctrine of the forum conveniens".

    Keywords:

    competence; competence of tribunal; municipal court; tribunal;



  • Judgment 1431


    79th Session, 1995
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 5

    Extract:

    The impugned decision having been withdrawn and declared null and void by its author, "whatever his reasons for doing so may have been, the only possible inference is [...] that the complainant has no cause of action and his complaint is therefore irreceivable." The Tribunal need not rule on the substantive question he raises in the absence of any substantive dispute between the parties.

    Keywords:

    cause of action; competence of tribunal; complaint; decision; no cause of action; receivability of the complaint; withdrawal of decision;



  • Judgment 1399


    78th Session, 1995
    European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 7

    Extract:

    "The first [question] is whether the complainant may come to the Tribunal if he is no longer on the staff of CERN and that is the reason why the Director-General has declined to entertain his internal appeal. There need be no doubt about the answer. [...] The Tribunal is open to any official, 'even' - as Article II (6)(a) of the Statute puts it - 'if his employment has ceased', who lodges a complaint alleging non-observance of the terms of his contract or of the rules that apply to him."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II (6)(A) OF THE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; former official; iloat statute; locus standi; ratione materiae; ratione personae; receivability of the complaint; status of complainant;

    Consideration 10

    Extract:

    "Inasmuch as Rule VI 1.01 [of the Staff Regulations] confers the right of appeal on 'every member of the personnel' it may be that someone does forfeit that right on leaving the organization and so ceasing to be a staff member provided that the issues they are objecting to or the decisions they are challenging did not occur before they left. There is no danger thereby of any miscarriage of justice since [...] a former official who alleges breach of contract or of the rules he was subject to may still come to the Tribunal."

    Reference(s)

    Organization rules reference: CERN STAFF REGULATION VI 1.01

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; former official; internal appeal; locus standi; ratione personae; right of appeal; staff regulations and rules; status of complainant;



  • Judgment 1392


    78th Session, 1995
    European Patent Organisation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 24

    Extract:

    "The appeal procedure set forth in the Service Regulations is, to quote Article 106, an individual appeals system. Such too is the basic feature of the system of appeal embodied in Article II of the Statute of the Tribunal, though it is subject to the provision in Article VII(2) setting a special time limit for appeal against any decision affecting a 'class of officials', which runs from the date of issue. So it is only by virtue of an individual contract of employment with the organisation that someone may lodge a complaint and the complainant may not alter the nature of the suit by declaring when he files the complaint that he is doing so as a staff union representative."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II AND ARTICLE VII(2) OF THE STATUTE
    Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 106 OF THE EPO SERVICE REGULATIONS

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; complainant; complaint; general decision; iloat statute; internal appeal; locus standi; publication; receivability of the complaint; staff regulations and rules; staff representative; start of time limit; time limit; tribunal;



  • Judgment 1389


    78th Session, 1995
    Universal Postal Union
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 27

    Extract:

    "The international organisation is under no duty to insure its expert against any adverse effects on him that the national postal department may draw from conclusions about the nature of an accident that has befallen him while on mission for the organisation. So any claim that the expert may make that goes beyond those limits should be made to the national department, which will deal with it according to its own rules. Nor indeed may the Union or the Tribunal intervene in the area of the department's competence."

    Keywords:

    applicable law; competence of tribunal; domestic law; insurance; organisation's duties; professional accident; project personnel;



  • Judgment 1369


    77th Session, 1994
    European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 15

    Extract:

    "The Tribunal must enforce the law within the full ambit of the competence its Statute vests in it. For that purpose it will apply any material rule of law, be it international or administrative or labour law or any other body of law. The only sort it will not apply is national law, save where there is express renvoi thereto in the Staff Regulations or contract of employment: see Judgment 1311 [...], under 15."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1311

    Keywords:

    applicable law; case law; competence of tribunal; contract; domestic law; exception; iloat statute; insurance benefits; international civil service principles; international instrument; law of contract; right; staff regulations and rules; written rule;

    Consideration 16

    Extract:

    Eurocontrol questions whether a complainant may rely on a collective agreement between an organisation and its staff. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that the collective agreement is a basic vehicle of social progress, justice and peace. That that is so is due to the International Labour Organization, among others, and to its international instruments such as the right to organise and collective bargaining convention, 1949 (No. 98), and the labour relations (public service) convention, 1978 (No. 151)."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1311

    Keywords:

    applicable law; collective agreement; collective bargaining; collective rights; competence of tribunal; staff union agreement; working conditions; written rule;



  • Judgment 1361


    77th Session, 1994
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 7

    Extract:

    "The Tribunal reaffirms that its rulings have the force of res judicata and are binding on the organisations that have recognised its jurisdiction. Any organisation that offends against that rudimentary principle by refusing to give effect to judgments it does not care for is disregarding the rights of staff and its own interests and is acting in breach of the obligations that it has assumed by recognising the Tribunal's jurisdiction."

    Keywords:

    acceptance; application for execution; competence of tribunal; continuing breach; execution of judgment; judgment of the tribunal; organisation's duties; organisation's interest; res judicata; staff member's interest;



  • Judgment 1337


    77th Session, 1994
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 7

    Extract:

    "The special service agreement that the complainant signed stated that it was between him and the United Nations. The fact that it provided for services to [subsidiary bodies of the FAO] does not make either of those bodies or the FAO itself a party to the contract or liable thereunder. The conclusion is that the Tribunal is not competent to hear the case."

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; contract; coordinated organisations; non official; organisation; unat;



  • Judgment 1330


    76th Session, 1994
    International Labour Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 8

    Extract:

    The complainants regard as a breach of their acquired rights an amendment to the Staff Regulations whose effect is to confer on the United Nations Administrative Tribunal competence for disputes concerning the reckoning of pensionable remuneration. But the Tribunal "cannot treat an amendment to the rules on competence as 'loss of an essential legal safeguard'. After all, with the new text competence goes to an independent and impartial international administrative tribunal."

    Keywords:

    acquired right; amendment to the rules; competence; competence of tribunal; pension; pensionable remuneration; right of appeal; safeguard; staff regulations and rules; unat;



  • Judgment 1328


    76th Session, 1994
    World Intellectual Property Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 10

    Extract:

    "A dispute of the kind Article II [of the Tribunal's Statute] refers to is not resolved until the Tribunal's judgment has been duly executed. So its competence is not exhausted when it passes judgment. Pending full execution the dispute remains unresolved and the Tribunal remains competent to rule on any issues that execution may raise."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II OF THE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    application for execution; competence of tribunal; execution of judgment; iloat statute; judgment of the tribunal;

    Consideration 11

    Extract:

    "The Tribunal's rulings carry the authority of res judicata, save that in accordance with Article XII(1) of its Statute and the Annex thereto their validity may be challenged on referral by an organisation that has recognised its jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice on the grounds of lack of competence or a fundamental fault in the procedure followed."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE XII(1) OF THE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    advisory opinion of icj; application for execution; competence of tribunal; flaw; icj; iloat statute; judgment of the tribunal; procedure before the tribunal; res judicata;

    Consideration 13

    Extract:

    "The possibility of cancellation of WIPO's recognition of the Tribunal's jurisdiction calls for no comment save that making an international organisation's decisions subject to judicial review affords a basic safeguard both of its own interests and of staff rights."

    Keywords:

    application for execution; competence of tribunal; declaration of recognition; judicial review; organisation's interest; right of appeal; safeguard; staff member's interest;



  • Judgment 1303


    76th Session, 1994
    International Telecommunication Union
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 4

    Extract:

    The complainant's objection to the amount of pay he is getting rests on principles of law applicable within the United Nations family of organisations. He submits that such principles take priority over his organization's own staff rules. He wants the Tribunal to order the review of an ITU rule on pay policy. "The claim [...] must fail because the Tribunal does not have competence to make such an order."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II(5) OF THE STATUTE

    Keywords:

    amendment to the rules; competence of tribunal; coordinated organisations; iloat statute; international civil service principles; salary; staff regulations and rules;



  • Judgment 1302


    76th Session, 1994
    European Southern Observatory
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 9

    Extract:

    The complainant submits but the organisation denies that he had the status of an ESO official. "The fact of the matter is that [a private company] employed him on its own behalf, not as an agent of the ESO. Since he is wrong in contending that the ESO was his employer the Tribunal is not competent to entertain his complaint, and it must fail."

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; complaint; locus standi; non official; official; receivability of the complaint; status of complainant;



  • Judgment 1286


    75th Session, 1993
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 8

    Extract:

    See Judgment 1285, considerations 8 and 9.

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 1285

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; contract; coordinated organisations; organisation; unat;



  • Judgment 1285


    75th Session, 1993
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Considerations 8-9

    Extract:

    The World Food Program is "a joint endeavour of the United Nations and the FAO. Although in some circumstances an agreement signed by the WFP might have bound the organization, in this case every special service agreement that the complainant signed stated that it was between him and the United Nations. [...] The conclusion is that the Tribunal is not competent to hear the case."

    Keywords:

    competence of tribunal; contract; coordinated organisations; non official; organisation; unat;



  • Judgment 1272


    75th Session, 1993
    World Tourism Organization
    Extracts: EN, FR
    Full Judgment Text: EN, FR

    Consideration 9

    Extract:

    "The Tribunal is competent to rule on the effects that the recruitment of [Mr. X] may have on the complainants' rights under the Regulations because the organisation established a special relationship with him: see what the Tribunal said on the subject, albeit in another context, in Judgment 122 [...] - in the second paragraph."

    Reference(s)

    ILOAT Judgment(s): 122

    Keywords:

    case law; competence of tribunal; contract; staff regulations and rules;

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