CELEX: 62020CA0162
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-162/20 P: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 March 2022 — WV v European External Action Service (EEAS) (Appeal — Civil service — Officials — Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union — Article 60, first paragraph — Unauthorised absence — Scope — Deduction from annual leave — Withholding of salary — Official who has failed to fulfil his or her obligations under Articles 21 and 55 of the Staff Regulations)

25.4.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/4
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 3 March 2022 — WV v European External Action Service (EEAS)
      (Case C-162/20 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - Civil service - Officials - Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union - Article 60, first paragraph - Unauthorised absence - Scope - Deduction from annual leave - Withholding of salary - Official who has failed to fulfil his or her obligations under Articles 21 and 55 of the Staff Regulations)
      (2022/C 171/04)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellant: WV (represented by: É. Boigelot, avocat)
      
         Other party to the proceedings: European External Action Service (EEAS) (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Spáč, acting as Agents, and by M. Troncoso Ferrer, abogado, and F.-M. Hislaire, avocat)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Sets aside the order of the General Court of the European Union of 29 January 2020, WV v EEAS (T-471/18, not published, EU:T:2020:26);
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of 27 November 2017 to impose a deduction from salary amounting to 72 calendar days and the decision of the EEAS of 2 May 2018 rejecting the appellant’s complaint lodged on 3 January 2018;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the EEAS to repay to the appellant the amounts wrongly deducted from her remuneration, amounting to 71,5 days, together with interest at the rate of 5 % per annum from the date on which they were deducted;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the EEAS to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by WV at first instance and in the present appeal.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 320, 28.9.2020.