Order — ECLI:EU:C:2002:274
Date: 2002-04-30
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Insurance against accident and occupational disease
Procedure: Appeal - unfounded;Appeal - inadmissible;Staff cases

Summary of the Order 
Officials — Social security — Insurance against accidents and occupational diseases — 
Accident — Definition — Acceptance of risk or negligence — Excluded 
(Staff Regulations, Art. 73; Rules on the insurance of officials of the European 
Communities against the risk of accident and occupational disease, Art. 2(1)) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-181/01 P 
Acceptance of risk and negligence are not 
used in the definition of accident in 
Article 2(1) of the Rules on the Insurance 
of officials against the risk of accident and 
occupational disease. Their application to a 
particular case cannot, therefore, preclude 
an event or external factor being treated as 
an accident, but could only serve to exclude 
an accident within the meaning of the rules 
on insurance cover laid down in Article 73 
of the Staff Regulations. 
(see para. 21) 
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