Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2003:247
Date: 2003-09-30
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Transfer of part of emoluments
Procedure: Staff cases - successful

SUMMARY - CASE T-17/01 
Held: The Commission is ordered to pay the applicant damages 
of GBP 17 394.64, with interest for late payment at the 
annual rate of 5.25% annually until payment. The 
remainder of the action for damages is dismissed. The 
Commission is ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings 
which gave rise to the judgment of the Court of First 
Instance of 16 May 2002 in Case T-17/01 Rounis v 
Commission. In the present proceedings, the Commission 
is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay one third of the 
costs incurred by the applicant. 
Summary 
Officials — Remuneration — Regular transfers outside the country of employment 
- Commitments proved to have been regularly undertaken in the country to which 
the transfer was made - Study costs of children of officials - Maximum amount 
which may be transferred 
(Staff Regulations, Annex VII, Art. 17(2) (b); Rules laying down the procedure for 
the transfer of part of an official's emoluments, Art. 2, second para., first indent) 
The amount which may be transferred in respect of the study costs of children of 
officials is fixed at a flat rate of three times the amount of the allowance for a 
dependent child provided for in Article 2(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations, 
plus the amount of the education allowance provided for in Article 3(1) of 
Annex VII actually received in respect of the child concerned. 
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ROUNIS v COMMISSION 
In the absence of a specific provision also authorising the transfer, over and above 
the flat-rate amount, of travel expenses or of an amount corresponding to a 
maintenance payment for the child concerned, such commitments may not be the 
subject of a transfer and must be regarded as included in the flat-rate amount. 
(see paras 27-29) 
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