Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2017:343
Date: 2017-05-17
Language of the case: French
Court formation: First Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded
Origin: Belgium

Judgment of the General Court of 17 May 2017 — Piessevaux v Council (Case T-519/16) 1 (Civil service — Officials — Pensions — Transfer of pension rights to the European Union pension scheme — Proposal concerning the crediting of additional pensionable years — Article 11(2) of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — New general implementing provisions — Equal treatment — Acquired rights — Legitimate expectations) Language of the case: French Parties Applicant: Vincent Piessevaux (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: initially by D. de Abreu Caldas and J.-N. Louis, then by J.-N. Louis, and finally by L. Ponteville, lawyers) Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and E. Rebasti, acting as Agents) Re: Application based on Article 270 TFEU and seeking annulment of the Council’s decision of 7 October 2013 definitively fixing, for the purposes of the European Union pension scheme, the pension rights acquired by the applicant following the transfer of the rights which he had acquired, prior to entering the service of the EU, from national pension bodies. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Mr Vincent Piessevaux to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 421, 24.11.2014 (case initially registered with the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-91/14 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1 September 2016).