CELEX: 62009TA0439
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-439/09: Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — Purvis v Parliament (Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament — Additional pension scheme — Refusal to grant a voluntary additional pension in part in the form of a lump sum — Plea of illegality — Acquired rights — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality)

26.11.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/28
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 — Purvis v Parliament
   (Case T-439/09) (1)
   
   (Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament - Additional pension scheme - Refusal to grant a voluntary additional pension in part in the form of a lump sum - Plea of illegality - Acquired rights - Legitimate expectations - Proportionality)
   2011/C 347/44
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: John Robert Purvis (Saint Andrews, United Kingdom) (represented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: initially, H. Krück, A. Pospíšilová Padowska and G. Corstens and subsequently, N. Lorenz, A. Pospíšilová Padowska and G. Corstens, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the European Parliament’s decision of 7 August 2009, which refused to grant the applicant his voluntary additional pension in part in the form of a lump sum
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders John Robert Purvis to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 11, 16.1.2010.