Order — ECLI:EU:C:2018:692
Date: 2018-09-06
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Eighth Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded;Appeal - inadmissible;Action for damages
Origin: France

Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 6 September 2018 — Bilde v Parliament (Case C‑67/18 P) (1) (Appeal — Admissibility — European Parliament — Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances of Members of the European Parliament — Parliamentary assistance allowance — Recovery of sums unduly paid) 1. Appeal — Grounds — Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the General Court — Inadmissibility (Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 30) 2. Appeal — Grounds — Specific criticism of a point of the General Court’s reasoning necessary (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 168(1)(d) and 169(2)) (see para. 42) 3. Appeal — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Review by the Court of the findings of fact — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para. 1) (see para. 45) 4. Appeal — Grounds — Plea against a ground of the judgment not necessary to support the operative part — Invalid plea in law (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 48) 5. EU law — Principles — Equal treatment — Need to comply with the principle of legality — Impossible to rely on an unlawful act committed in favour of a third party (see para. 58) Operative part 1. The appeal is dismissed as being manifestly inadmissible in part and manifestly unfounded in part. 2. Ms Dominique Bilde is ordered to pay the costs. 2. Ms Dominique Bilde is ordered to pay the costs. 1 OJ C 161, 7.5.2018.