Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2016:106
Date: 2016-02-26
Language of the case: Croatian
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions
Procedure: Action for damages - unfounded
Origin: Croatia

Action brought on ar and Others v European Union (Case T-507/14) Language of the case: Croatian Parties Applicants: Vedran Vidmar (Zagreb, Croatia); Saša Čaldarević (Zagreb); Irena Glogovšek (Zagreb); Gordana Grancarić (Zagreb); Martina Grgec (Zagreb); Ines Grubišić (Vranjic, Croatia); Sunčica Horvat Peris (Karlovac, Croatia); Zlatko Ilak (Samobor, Croatia); Mirjana Jelavić (Virovitica, Croatia); Romuald Kantoci (Pregrada, Croatia); Svjetlana Klobučar (Zagreb); Ivan Kobaš (Županja, Croatia); Zlatko Kovačić (Sesvete, Croatia); Tihana Kušeta Šerić (Split, Croatia); Damir Lemaić (Zagreb); Željko Ljubičić (Solin, Croatia); Gordana Mahovac (Nova Gradiška, Croatia); Martina Majcen (Krapina, Croatia); Višnja Merdžo (Rijeka, Croatia); Tomislav Perić (Zagreb); Darko Radić (Zagreb); Damjan Saridžić (Zagreb); Darko Graf (Zagreb) (represented by: D. Graf, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Form of order sought The applicants claim that the General Court should: By means of an interim measure, order the European Union to compensate, on the basis of Article 340(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, all of the material damage suffered by all the applicants during the period from 1 January 2012 to the time at which the applicants began to exercise the functions of Croatian bailiffs in accordance with Article 36(1) and Annex VII(1) of the Act of Accession, legally binding on all 28 signatory States of the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, including the Commission since 9 December 2011, as a result of the European Commission’s failure to fulfil its monitoring ob epublic of Croatia, amounting to EUR 600 000 for each calendar year and for each defendant, together with late payment interest of 12% per annum, to be calculated:as regards the compensation for all of the actual loss, from 1 January 2012 until t he date of actual payment;as regards the compensation for all of the loss of profit suffered by the applicants during 2012, from 1 January 2013 until the date of actual payment;as regards the compensation for all of the loss of profit suffered by the applicants during 2013, from 1 January 2014 until the date of actual payment;as regards the compensation for all of the loss of profit suffered by the applicants during 2014, from 1 January 2015 until the date of actual payment;After the interim measure sought in the first indent has become definitive, and after the oral hearing and the presentation of the appropriate evidence relating to the amount of that claim, order the European Commission to pay every one of the applicants the costs incurred in the present proceedings.Pleas in law and main argumentsIn support of the action, the applicants rely on pleas essentially the same as those relied on in Case T-109/14 Škugor and O thers v European Union.