Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2019:267
Date: 2019-04-30
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Eighth Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded

Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2019 — Alvarez and Bejarano and Others v Commission (Case T-516/16 and T-536/16) 1 (Civil service — Officials — Members of the contract staff — Reform of the Staff Regulations — Less favourable scheme for the flat-rate payment of travel expenses and for the increase in annual leave by way of additional days off as travelling time — Link between the grant of those entitlements and the expatriate status — Abolition of the reimbursement of annual travel expenses and travelling time) Language of the case: French Parties Applicant: Maria Alvarez y Bejarano (Namur, Belgium) and the 11 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the judgment (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers) Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by J. Currall and G. Gattinara, and subsequently by G. Gattinara and F. Simonetti, acting as Agents) Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented initially by E. Taneva and M. Ecker, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented initially by M. Bauer and M. Veiga, and subsequently by M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents) Re: Actions pursuant to Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the decisions no longer to allow the applicants, as of 1 January 2014, travelling time or reimbursement of annual travel costs so that they may maintain a connection with their place of origin. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Orders that Cases T-516/16 and T-536/16 be joined for the purposes of the judgment; Dismisses the actions; Orders Ms Maria Alvarez y Bejarano and the other officials and members of staff of the European Commission whose names appear in the annex to pay the costs; Orders the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament each to bear their own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 421, 24.11.2014 (case initially registered at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-85/14 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).