Case F-100/05: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 14 November 2006 — Chatziioannidou v Commission (Officials — Pensions — Pension rights acquired before entry into the service of the Communities — Transfer to the Community scheme — Calculation of years of pensionable service — Article 11(2) of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Failure to apply, because of the introduction of the euro, the provisions relating to the monetary conversion of the sum transferred)
Date: 2006-12-30
Institutions: Civil Service Tribunal
Subjects: European Commission, Greece, action by staff, equal treatment, euro, exchange rate, transfer of pension rights

30.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 326/83

EUROPEAN UNION CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL

Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of
14 November 2006 — Chatziioannidou v Commission

Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of
14 November 2006 — Villa and Others v Parliament

(Case F-100/05) (1)

(Case F-4/06) (1)

(Officials — Pensions — Pension rights acquired before entry
into the service of the Communities — Transfer to the Com-
munity scheme — Calculation of years of pensionable service
— Article 11(2) of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations —
Failure to apply, because of the introduction of the euro, the
provisions relating to the monetary conversion of the sum
transferred)

(2006/C 326/167)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Eleni Chatziioannidou (Auderghem, Belgium) (repre-
sented by: S. A. Pappas, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: D. Martin and K. Herrmann, Agents)

(Pension — Transfer of pension rights — Calculation of the
premium already obtained)

(2006/C 326/168)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Renata Villa
Others (represented by: G. Bouneou, F. Frabetti, lawyers)

(Senningerberg, Luxembourg)

and

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: J.F. De Wachter
and M. Mustapha-Pacha, Agents)

Re:

Re:

Application for annulment of
the Commission's decision
concerning the transfer of pension rights acquired in Greece to
the Community scheme.

Operative part of the judgment

1. The decisions of the Commission of the European Communities of
30 November 2004 and 20 February 2005 calculating the appli-
cant's years of pensionable service following the transfer to the
Community scheme of the actuarial equivalent of the pension rights
she had acquired in Greece are annulled.

to reimburse the applicants

Application for annulment of the decisions of 8 February 2005
whereby the appointing authority of the European Parliament
refuses
the excess premium,
resulting from the difference between the rights acquired during
the years of when they were affiliated to the Italian scheme and
the number of annuities transferred to the Community scheme
following a new calculation of the transfer of their pension
rights.

Operative part of the judgment

2. The Commission of the European Communities is ordered to pay

1. The action is dismissed.

the costs.

(1) OJ C 10, 14.01.2006, p. 25 (case initially registered before the Court
of First Instance of the European Communities under number T-
387/05 and transferred to the European Union Civil Service Tribunal
by order of 15.12.2005).

(1) OJ C 74, 25.03.2006, p. 34.

2. The parties shall bear their own costs.