Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2022:362
Date: 2022-06-15
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;Staff cases - inadmissible;Action for damages - unfounded

Judgment of the General Court of 15 June 2022 – Dumitrescu and Schwarz v Commission (Case T-531/16) 1 (Civil service – Officials – 2014 reform of the Staff Regulations – Reimbursement of annual travel expenses – Place of origin located in a third country – Flat-rate payment calculated on the basis of the distance separating the place of employment from the capital of the Member State of which the official is a national) Language of the case: French Parties Applicants: Vasile Dumitrescu (Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Belgium), Guido Schwarz (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and T. Bohr, acting as Agents) Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: E. Taneva and M. Ecker, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents) Re: Applications under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the decisions to reduce, from 1 January 2014, the reimbursement of annual travel expenses enabling the applicants to maintain a connection with their place of origin and for an order requiring the Commission to make a reimbursement of annual travel expenses to the applicants’ place of origin that covers their actual expenses. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Vasile Dumitrescu and Guido Schwarz to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission; Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 89, 16.3.2015 (case initially registered before the European Civil Service Tribunal under Case No F-7/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).