CELEX: 62016TA0729
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-729/16: Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2018 — PO and Others v EEAS (Civil Service – EEAS – Remuneration – Officials posted to the Beijing delegation – Family allowance – Education allowance for the school year 2015/2016 – Second sentence of Article 15 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations – Exceedance of the statutory ceiling for third countries – Decision to cap the reimbursement of education costs in exceptional circumstances – General Implementing Provisions)

7.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 4/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2018 — PO and Others v EEAS
      (Case T-729/16) (1)
      
      (Civil Service - EEAS - Remuneration - Officials posted to the Beijing delegation - Family allowance - Education allowance for the school year 2015/2016 - Second sentence of Article 15 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Exceedance of the statutory ceiling for third countries - Decision to cap the reimbursement of education costs in exceptional circumstances - General Implementing Provisions)
      (2019/C 4/32)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: PO, PP, PQ and PR (represented initially by: N. de Montigny and J.-N. Louis, and subsequently by: N. de Montigny, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European External Action Service (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Spac, acting as Agents, and M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers).
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decisions of the EEAS not to reimburse the applicants, in respect of the school year 2015/2016, for the education costs exceeding an amount corresponding to the statutory ceiling for third countries (six times the basic ceiling) increased by EUR 10 000 (EUR 27 788,40 in total).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders PO, PP, PQ and PR to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European External Action Service (EEAS).
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 475, 19.12.2016.