CELEX: 62014FN0098
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Case F-98/14: Action brought on 29 September 2014 — ZZ v Council

1.12.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 431/50
            
         Action brought on 29 September 2014 — ZZ v Council
   (Case F-98/14)
   (2014/C 431/79)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: ZZ (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union
   
      Subject-matter and description of the proceedings
   
   Action seeking (i) the partial annulment of two Council Staff Notes in so far as they link obtaining reimbursement of travel expenses from the place of employment to the place of origin and obtaining travelling time to the expatriation and foreign residence allowances and (ii) an order for the defendant to pay damages for the material and non-material harm which the applicant claims to have suffered.
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Tribunal should:
   
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               Pursuant to Article 270 TFEU, annul the decision in Staff Note (‘SN’) 13/14 of 9 January 2014 (Decision No 2/2014), amending the rules on travelling time following the date of application (1 January 2014) of Article 7 of Annex V to the Staff Regulations, and annul the decision in Staff Note (‘SN’) 9/14 (Decision No 12/2014), amending the rules on travel expenses following the date of application (1 January 2014) of Article 8 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations, as amended by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union, published in Official Journal
                  L 287 of 29 October 2013. The application for annulment is limited to the part of the SNs which links the right to travel expenses and travelling time to the expatriation and foreign residence allowances and to Article 6 of SN 9/14, which introduced new criteria for determining the place of origin;
            
         
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               order the Council to pay the applicant EUR 1 65  596,42 for the material damage suffered and EUR 40  000 for the non-material damage suffered;
            
         
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               order the Council to pay default and compensatory interest at a rate of 6,75 % for the material and non-material damage suffered;
            
         
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               order the Council to pay the costs.