Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2022:365
Date: 2022-06-15
Language of the case: German
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 15 June 2022 – Schaffrin v Commission (Case T-538/16) 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: German Parties Applicant: Dora Schaffrin (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: M. Müller-Trawinski, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T Bohr and G. Gattinara, acting as Agents) Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: E. Taneva and S. Seyr, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents) Re: Application under Article 270 TFEU for, first, annulment of the decisions to reduce, from 1 January 2014, the reimbursement of annual travel expenses enabling the applicant to maintain a connection with her place of origin and, second, an order requiring the Commission to review the amount of the flat-rate payment of those annual travel expenses. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Dora Schaffrin to bear her 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 127, 20.4.2015 (case initially registered before the European Civil Service Tribunal under Case No F-15/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).