Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:185
Date: 2025-02-26
Language of the case: English
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded
Origin: Germany;Denmark;France;Italy;Netherlands

Judgment of the General Court of 26 February 2025 – Bowles and Others v ECB (Case T-1076/23) 1 (Civil service – ECB staff – Remuneration – Annual salary adjustment – Methodology for calculating the adjustment – Taking into account of the exchange rate between the euro and the Swiss franc – Error of assessment) Language of the case: English Parties Applicants: Carlos Bowles (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and the other 39 applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer) Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: B. Ehlers, F. Malfrère and D. Camilleri Podestà, acting as Agents, assisted by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer) Re: By their action under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the applicants seek the annulment, first, of their salary statements or pension slips of January 2023, in so far as they implement the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 22 December 2022 fixing the annual General Salary Adjustment for 2023 at 4.0751% and, second, of the decisions of 30 August 2023 partially rejecting their complaints. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Mr Carlos Bowles and the other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2024/749, 22.1.2024.