CELEX: 62017TA0119(01)
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-119/17 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 12 May 2021 — Alba Aguilera and Others v EEAS (Civil service — Officials — Temporary agents — Contract staff — Remuneration — EEAS staff posted to a third country — Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — Annual assessment of allowance for living conditions — Decision on reduction of the allowance for living conditions for staff posted to Ethiopia from 30 to 25 % — Regional coherence — Manifest errors of assessment)

5.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/13
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 May 2021 — Alba Aguilera and Others v EEAS
      (Case T-119/17 RENV) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Temporary agents - Contract staff - Remuneration - EEAS staff posted to a third country - Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Annual assessment of allowance for living conditions - Decision on reduction of the allowance for living conditions for staff posted to Ethiopia from 30 to 25 % - Regional coherence - Manifest errors of assessment)
      (2021/C 263/17)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Ruben Alba Aguilera (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and the 27 other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: S. Orlandi, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European External Action Service (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Spáč, acting as Agents, and M. Troncoso Ferrer, C. García Fernández and F.-M. Hislaire, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      APPICATION under Article 270 TFUE seeking the annulment of the decision of the EEAS of 19 April 2016 ADMIN(2016) 7, fixing the ALC referred to in Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations –Financial Year 2016, in so far as that decision reduces, as of 1 January 2016, the allowance for living conditions paid to European Union staff posted in Ethiopia.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Director-General for Budget and Administration of the European External Action Service (EEAS) 19 April 2016, fixing the allocation for living conditions referred to in Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — Financial Year 2016, in so far as it reduces, as of 1 January 2016, the allowance for living conditions paid to European Union staff posted in Ethiopia.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the EEAS to pay the costs incurred in Cases T-119/17, C-427/18 P and T-119/17 RENV.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 129, 24.4.2017.