Case F-86/05: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 12 September 2006 — De Soeten v Council (Pension — Request for early retirement without reduction of pension entitlement — Rejection of the request)
Date: 2006-10-28
Institutions: Civil Service Tribunal
Subjects: Council of the European Union, European official, action by staff, early retirement, pension scheme, retirement conditions

C 261/32

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

28.10.2006

Criteria for the assignment of cases to chambers

(2006/C )

(2006/C 261/65)

On 20 September 2006, in accordance with Article 4 of Annex
I to the Statute of the Court of Justice and Article 12 of the
Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, the Civil
Service Tribunal decided to maintain in force until 30
September 2007 the following conditions for the assignment of
cases to chambers:

— the First Chamber shall hear all cases, with the exception of
recruitment,
termination of service,

those principally concerning questions of
assessment/promotion and final
which shall be heard by the Second Chamber;

— a number of cases shall be assigned to the Third Chamber,
regardless of the subject-matter involved, at regular intervals
to be determined at a plenary meeting of the Tribunal;

— derogations from the above rules on assignment may be
made for reasons of connections between cases and to
ensure a balanced and reasonably varied workload within
the Tribunal.

Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of
12 September 2006 — De Soeten v Council

(Case F-86/05) (1)

(Pension — Request for early retirement without reduction of
pension entitlement — Rejection of the request)

(2006/C 261/67)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Henders De Soeten (The Hague, Netherlands) (repre-
sented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and E. Marchal,
lawyers)

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M.
Simm and I. Sulce, Agents)

Re:

Annulment of the Council decision rejecting, under Article 9(2)
of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations, the applicant's request
for early retirement without reduction of pension entitlement

Designation of the judge to replace the President of the
Civil Service Tribunal for the purpose of dealing with
applications for interim measures

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

(2006/C 261/66)

On 20 September 2006,
in accordance with Article 3(4) of
Decision 2004/752 and Article 106 of the Rules of Procedure
of the Court of First Instance, the Tribunal decided that, for the
period from 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2007, Judge
Kreppel, President of the First Chamber, shall replace the Presi-
dent of the Tribunal for the purpose of dealing with applica-
tions for interim measures in the event of
the President's
absence or his being prevented from attending.

1. Annuls the decision of 5 October 2004 of the Council of the
European Union rejecting Ms De Souten's request for early retire-
ment without reduction of pension entitlement;

2. Orders the Council of the European Union to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 296, 26.11.2005 (Case initially registered in the Court of First
Instance of the European Communities under No T-336/05 and
transferred to the European Union Civil Service Tribunal by order
of 15.12.2005).