CELEX: 62019TA0315
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-315/19: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — BT v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Surviving spouse — Survivor’s pension — Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Conditions for eligibility — Duration of the marriage — Plea of illegality — Equal treatment — Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age — Proportionality)

22.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 62/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — BT v Commission
      (Case T-315/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age - Proportionality)
      (2021/C 62/33)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: BT (represented by: J.-N. Louis, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin, acting as Agent)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: International Association of Former Officials of the European Union (AIACE International) (represented by: J. Van Rossum, lawyer)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: J. Van Pottelberge and J. Steele, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decision of 20 July 2018 rejecting the applicant’s request for a survivor’s pension.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 20 July 2018 rejecting BT’s request for a survivor’s pension;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by BT;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the International Association of Former Officials of the European Union (AIACE International) to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 246, 22.7.2019.