Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2000:154
Date: 2000-06-15
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Foreign residence allowance
Procedure: Staff cases - successful;Staff cases - decision unnecessary

SUMMARY — CASE T-51/99 
Summary 
Officials — Remuneration — Expatriation allowance — Conditions of payment — 
Residence outside the place of employment throughout the reference period — 
Services performed for an international organisation in the territory of a Member 
State other than that of the place of employment — Previous residence at the place 
of employment — No effect 
(Staff Regulations, Annex VII, Art. 4(1) (a)) 
Article 4(1)(a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations cannot be taken to preclude 
payment of an expatriation allowance to an official who during the reference period 
performed services for an international organisation in the territory of a Member 
State other than that of his place of employment. 
That provision gives a right to payment of the expatriation allowance to an official 
who, during the reference period, has resided permanently outside the State in 
whose territory the place where he is employed is situated, even if that official has 
resided in that State prior to that period, and it is not necessary to inquire, in clear 
cases, whether, in reintegrating himself into the environment of his place of 
employment, the person concerned is subject to precisely the same extra expense 
and inconvenience as an official who has never resided within the territory of that 
State. 
(see paras 30 and 32) 
See: T-18/91 Costacurta Gelabert v Commission [1992] ECR II-1655, para. 44 
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