# C_2015414EN.01004001.xml

| 14.12.2015 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 414/40 |
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Action brought on 6 July 2015 — ZZ and Others v EIB

(Case F-99/15)

(2015/C 414/50)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: ZZ and Others (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)

Defendant: European Investment Bank (EIB)

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Application for annulment of the salary statements of April 2015 and the bonus statements of April 2015 which, in the view of the applicants, implement decisions which fail to have regard to their rights to a salary progression and claim for damages in respect of the pecuniary and non-pecuniary harm allegedly suffered.

Form of order sought

| — | Annulment of the decisions to apply to the applicants the decision of the Board of Directors of the defendant of 16 December 2014 setting a salary progression limited to 2,7 % and the decision of the Management Committee of the defendant of 4 February 2015, entailing a salary loss, those decisions being in the salary statements of April 2015 and the annulment, to the same extent, of all the decisions in the subsequent salary statements; |
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| — | Annulment of the notices concerning the performance rewards for 2015; |
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| — | Accordingly, order the defendant
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to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the decisions cited above of the Board of Directors of the defendant of 16 December 2014 and of the Management Committee of the defendant of 4 February 2015 as compared to the application of the minimum merit grid; to that difference in remuneration must be added late-payment interest with effect from 12 April 2015 and, subsequently, on the 12th day of each month until payment in full, that interest being set at the rate of the ECB increased by three points; —
to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the application of the rate of 16,3 % on a salary budget defined in accordance with the defendant’s undertakings; —
to pay damages in respect of the harm suffered as a result of the loss of purchasing power, that loss being evaluated ex aequo et bono and provisionally at 1,5 % of the monthly remuneration; —
to pay to each applicant EUR 1  000 as compensation for the non-pecuniary harm; | — | to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the decisions cited above of the Board of Directors of the defendant of 16 December 2014 and of the Management Committee of the defendant of 4 February 2015 as compared to the application of the minimum merit grid; to that difference in remuneration must be added late-payment interest with effect from 12 April 2015 and, subsequently, on the 12th day of each month until payment in full, that interest being set at the rate of the ECB increased by three points; | — | to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the application of the rate of 16,3 % on a salary budget defined in accordance with the defendant’s undertakings; | — | to pay damages in respect of the harm suffered as a result of the loss of purchasing power, that loss being evaluated ex aequo et bono and provisionally at 1,5 % of the monthly remuneration; | — | to pay to each applicant EUR 1  000 as compensation for the non-pecuniary harm; |
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| — | to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the decisions cited above of the Board of Directors of the defendant of 16 December 2014 and of the Management Committee of the defendant of 4 February 2015 as compared to the application of the minimum merit grid; to that difference in remuneration must be added late-payment interest with effect from 12 April 2015 and, subsequently, on the 12th day of each month until payment in full, that interest being set at the rate of the ECB increased by three points; | | | | | | | | |
| — | to pay the difference in remuneration resulting from the application of the rate of 16,3 % on a salary budget defined in accordance with the defendant’s undertakings; | | | | | | | | |
| — | to pay damages in respect of the harm suffered as a result of the loss of purchasing power, that loss being evaluated ex aequo et bono and provisionally at 1,5 % of the monthly remuneration; | | | | | | | | |
| — | to pay to each applicant EUR 1  000 as compensation for the non-pecuniary harm; | | | | | | | | |

| — | Order the defendant to pay all the costs. |
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