Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2013:548
Date: 2013-09-12
Language of the case: French
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Action for annulment - decision unnecessary;Action for failure to act - decision unnecessary

Summary — Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), 19 November 2013 Legal proceedings — Action on the adjustment of remuneration and pensions of officials — Judgment delivered in a related case — Action devoid of purpose — No need to adjudicate (Art. 263 TFEU; Staff Regulations, Annex XI, Arts 3 and 10) An action concerning the adjustment of remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Union for a specific year is devoid of purpose, and there is thus no need to adjudicate on it, where the Court has ruled in another, closely related, case on the division of roles between the institutions, in particular in respect of the determination of the legal basis for that adjustment and the triggering of the exception clause provided for in Article 10 of Annex XI to the Staff Regulations. (see paras 20-22)