Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2017:469
Date: 2017-07-06
Language of the case: French
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded;Action for damages - unfounded

summary of the pleas in law on which the application based (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 21, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal, Art. 35(1)(e)) (see para. 197) 7. Officials — Staff of the European Investment Bank — Remuneration — Reform of the bonus scheme — Administration’s discretion — Respect for the principle of equal treatment — Non-excessive change in the amount of individual rewards in a direction more favourable to managers — Lawfulness (Staff Regulations of the European Investment Bank, Art. 20) (see paras 220-222, 234, 235, 237, 241) 8. Judicial proceedings — Measures of organisation of procedure — Request for production of documents — Duties of the person making the request (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 89(3)(d)) (see para. 249) Re: ACTION under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decisions, contained in the bonus statements for April 2013, applying to the applicants the decision of the EIB Board of Directors of 14 December 2010 and the decisions of the EIB Management Committee of 9 November 2010, 29 June 2011, 16 November 2011 and 20 February 2013; and, secondly, an order that the EIB pay to the applicants a sum corresponding to the difference between the amount of remuneration paid in application of the abovementioned decisions and the amount of remuneration due under the previous system, or, in the alternative, the amount of remuneration due under the new scheme when correctly implemented, as well as compensation for the material damage resulting from loss of purchasing power and for the non-material damage which the applicants claim to have suffered. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Mr Jean-Pierre Bodson and the other members of the staff of the European Investment Bank (EIB) whose names are listed in the annex to pay the costs.