CELEX: 62012CB0579
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-579/12 RX: Decision of the Court (Reviewing Chamber) of 11 December 2012 to review the judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) delivered on 8 November 2012 in Case T-268/11 P Commission v Strack

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 71/6
            
         Decision of the Court (Reviewing Chamber) of 11 December 2012 to review the judgment of the General Court (Appeal Chamber) delivered on 8 November 2012 in Case T-268/11 P Commission v Strack
   (Case C-579/12 RX)
   (2013/C 71/10)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties to the proceedings before the General Court
   
   
      Appellant: European Commission
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Guido Strack
   
      Questions to be reviewed
   
   The review shall concern the questions whether – having regard to the case-law of the Court of Justice relating to the entitlement to paid annual leave as a principle of European Union social law, which is also expressly affirmed in Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and is covered in particular by Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9) – the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 8 November 2012 in Case T 268/11 P Commission v Strack affects the unity or consistency of European Union law inasmuch as the General Court, as an appeal court:
   
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               interpreted Article 1e(2) of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union to the effect that it does not include the requirements relating to the organisation of working time contained in Directive 2003/88, in particular, paid annual leave, and
            
         
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               consequently, interpreted Article 4 of Annex V to those Regulations as implying that the right to carry over annual leave exceeding the limit laid down in that provision may be granted only where the official has been unable to take leave for reasons connected with his activity as an official and the duties he has thus been required to perform.
            
         The persons referred to in Article 23 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the parties to the proceedings before the General Court of the European Union are invited to lodge their written observations on those questions at the Court of Justice of the European Union within one month of the service of the present decision.