Judgment — ECLI:EU:F:2016:163
Date: 2016-07-20
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - successful

Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (3rd Chamber) of 20 July 2016 — RN v Commission (Case F-104/15) 1 (Civil service — Survivor’s pension — Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Surviving spouse of a former official — Eligibility — Second marriage — Equal treatment of officials) Language of the case: French Parties Applicant: RN represented by: F.Moyse, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara, A.-C. Simon and F. Simonetti, acting as Agents) Intervener in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Ecker and E. Tavena, acting as Agents) Re: Application for annulment of the decision not to grant a survivor’s pension to the applicant. Operative part of the judgment The Tribunal: Annuls the decision of 24 September 2014 by which the European Commission refused the application of RN for a survivor’s pension in respect of her late husband, a former official entitled to a retirement pension. Declares that the European Commission is to bear its own costs and orders it to pay the costs incurred by Mrs RN. Declares that the European Parliament is to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 302, 14.9.2015, p. 71.