CELEX: 62015FA0061
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Case F-61/15: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 20 January 2016 — Proia v Commission (Civil Service — Member of contract staff — Remuneration — Expatriation allowance — Conditions laid down in Article 4(1)(a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations — Usual residence prior to the entry into service — Period of study followed by a traineeship and successive employment contracts in the State of employment — Presumed intention of the member of staff concerned to move the permanent centre of his interests from the start of his studies in the State of employment — Absence)

29.2.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 78/36
            
         Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 20 January 2016 — Proia v Commission
   (Case F-61/15) (1)
   
   ((Civil Service - Member of contract staff - Remuneration - Expatriation allowance - Conditions laid down in Article 4(1)(a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations - Usual residence prior to the entry into service - Period of study followed by a traineeship and successive employment contracts in the State of employment - Presumed intention of the member of staff concerned to move the permanent centre of his interests from the start of his studies in the State of employment - Absence))
   (2016/C 078/49)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Alessandro Proia (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T.S. Bohr and F. Simonetti, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements of the Commission of 25 September 2014 refusing to grant the applicant the expatriation allowance.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Tribunal:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 25 September 2014 refusing to grant Mr Proia the expatriation allowance under Article 4(1)(a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr Proia.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 221, 6.7.2015, p. 27.