CELEX: 62019TA0018
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-18/19: Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Brown v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Official with United Kingdom nationality at the date of entering the service — Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union — Acquisition of the nationality of the country of employment during the course of a career — Loss of the expatriation allowance — Equal treatment — Principle of non-discrimination — Article 4(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations)

30.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 414/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Brown v Commission
      (Case T-18/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Official with United Kingdom nationality at the date of entering the service - Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union - Acquisition of the nationality of the country of employment during the course of a career - Loss of the expatriation allowance - Equal treatment - Principle of non-discrimination - Article 4(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations)
      (2020/C 414/54)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Colin Brown (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: I. Van Damme, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Bohr and D. Milanowska, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decision of 19 March 2018 of the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements (PMO) withdrawing the applicant’s entitlement to the expatriation allowance and to the payment of travel expenses and, secondly, re-establishment of those benefits with effect from 1 December 2017.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Colin Brown and the European Commission to bear their own respective costs;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 72, 25.2.2019.