CELEX: 62016TA0517
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-517/16: Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2018 — Janoha and Others v Commission (Civil service — Members of the contract staff — Reform of the Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014 — Article 6 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — New provisions relating to the days of leave granted applicable to officials posted in a third country — Objection of illegality — Second paragraph of Article 10 of the Staff Regulations — Articles 7 and 33 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights — Equal treatment — Acquired rights — Legitimate expectations — Legal certainty — Misuse of powers)

4.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/22
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 4 December 2018 — Janoha and Others v Commission
      (Case T-517/16) (1)
      
      ((Civil service - Members of the contract staff - Reform of the Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014 - Article 6 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - New provisions relating to the days of leave granted applicable to officials posted in a third country - Objection of illegality - Second paragraph of Article 10 of the Staff Regulations - Articles 7 and 33 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights - Equal treatment - Acquired rights - Legitimate expectations - Legal certainty - Misuse of powers))
      (2019/C 44/27)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Andrea Janoha (Christ Church, Barbados) and the other five applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: O. Mader, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: J. Currall and G. Gattinara, and subsequently by G. Gattinara and A.-C. Simon, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by: M. Bauer and M. Veiga, and subsequently by M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU and seeking annulment of the decisions reducing the number of the applicants’ days of annual leave as of 2014.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Andrea Janoha and the other members of the contract staff of the European Commission whose names are set out in the annex, in addition to bearing their own costs, to pay those incurred by the Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Declares that the Council of the European Union is to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 388, 3.11.2014 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under number F-86/14 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).