Case T-45/01: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 12 July 2007 — Sanders and Others v Commission (Staff employed at the JET Joint Undertaking — Application of a legal status different from that of members of the temporary staff — Compensation for material damage sustained)
Date: 2007-08-25
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, Joint European Torus, action for annulment (EU), appointment of staff, indemnification, temporary employment

C 199/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

25.8.2007

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of
12 July 2007 — Sanders and Others v Commission

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of
12 July 2007 — Eagle and Others v Commission

(Case T-45/01) (1)

(Case T-144/02) (1)

(Staff employed at the JET Joint Undertaking — Application
of a legal status different from that of members of the
temporary staff — Compensation for material damage
sustained)

(Staff employed at the JET Joint Undertaking — Application
of a legal status different from that of members of the
temporary staff — Compensation for material damage
sustained)

(2007/C 199/47)

Language of the case: English

(2007/C 199/48)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Stephen G. Sanders (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
and the 94 applicants whose names appear in the annex (repre-
sented by: initially P. Roth QC, I. Hutton, E. Mitrophanous and
A. Howard, Barristers, and subsequently P. Roth QC, I. Hutton
and B. Lask, Barristers,)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: J. Currall, Agent)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European
Union (represented by: initially J.-P. Hix and A. Pilette and subse-
quently J.-P. Hix and B. Driessen, Agents)

Re:

Fixing, pursuant to the judgment of the Court of First Instance
of 5 October 2004 in T-45/01 Sanders and Others v Commission
[2004] ECR II-3315, the amount of damages for the financial
loss sustained by each of the applicants as a result of the fact
that
the
they were not recruited as temporary servants of
Communities during the time they worked at the Joint European
Torus (JET) Joint Undertaking.

Operative part of the judgment

1. Orders the Commission to pay to each of the applicants damages
corresponding to the sum indicated for each of them in column 6
of Annex 3 to the present judgment;

2. Orders that that sum shall bear interest at the rate of 5.25 %

from 31 December 1999 until actual payment;

Parties

Applicants: Richard J. Eagle (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) and
the 12 applicants whose names appear in the annex (repre-
sented by: D. Beard, Barrister)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: J. Currall, Agent)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European
Union (represented by: J.P. Hix and B. Driessen, Agents)

Re:

Fixing, pursuant to the judgment of the Court of First Instance
of 5 October 2004 in T-144/02 Eagle and Others v Commission
[2004] ECR II-3381, the amount of damages for the financial
loss sustained by each of the applicants as a result of the fact
that
the
they were not recruited as temporary servants of
Communities during the time they worked at the Joint European
Torus (JET) Joint Undertaking.

Operative part of the judgment

1. Orders the Commission to pay to each of the applicants damages
corresponding to the sum indicated for each of them in column 6
of Annex 3 to the present judgment;

2. Orders that that sum shall bear interest at the rate of 5.25 %

from 31 December 1999 until actual payment;

3. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs
of the applicants incurred in respect of the entire proceedings before
the Court of First Instance;

3. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs
of the applicants incurred in respect of the entire proceedings before
the Court of First Instance;

4. Orders the Council to bear its own costs.

4. Orders the Council to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 134, 5.5.2001.

(1) OJ C 169, 13.7.2002.