CELEX: 62016TA0506
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-506/16: Judgment of the General Court of 6 July 2017 — Bodson and Others v EIB (Civil service — EIB staff — Contractual nature of the employment relationship — Remuneration — Reform of the system of remuneration and salary progression — Legitimate expectations — Legal certainty — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality — Duty to have regard for the welfare of staff — Article 11(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the EIB)

21.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 277/44
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 July 2017 — Bodson and Others v EIB
   (Case T-506/16) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - EIB staff - Contractual nature of the employment relationship - Remuneration - Reform of the system of remuneration and salary progression - Legitimate expectations - Legal certainty - Manifest error of assessment - Proportionality - Duty to have regard for the welfare of staff - Article 11(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the EIB))
   (2017/C 277/66)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Jean-Pierre Bodson (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and the 483 other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Investment Bank (EIB) (represented by: initially, C. Gómez de la Cruz, G. Nuvoli and T. Gilliams, and, subsequently, T. Gilliams and G. Faedo, acting as Agents, assisted by P.-E. Partsch, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decisions, contained in the salary slips from April 2013 onwards, applying to the applicants the decision of the EIB Board of Directors of 18 December 2012, the decision of the EIB Management Committee of 29 January 2013, and the article published online on 5 February 2013 informing staff of the adoption of those two decisions; and, secondly, an order that the EIB pay to the applicants a sum corresponding to the difference between the amount of remuneration paid in application of the abovementioned decisions and the amount of remuneration due under the previous system, together with compensation for the damage which the applicants claim to have suffered as a result of their loss of purchasing power.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Jean-Pierre Bodson and the other members of staff of the European Investment Bank (EIB) whose names are listed in the annex to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 207, 20.7.2013 (case initially registered before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union under number F-45/13 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1 September 2016).