CELEX: C2007/269/124
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Case F-10/07: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 18 September 2007 — Botos v Commission (Staff cases — Officials — Social Security — Sickness insurance — Repayment of medical expenses — Serious illness — Management committee — Medical expertise)

10.11.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/69
            
         Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 18 September 2007 — Botos v Commission
   (Case F-10/07) (1)
   
   (Staff cases - Officials - Social Security - Sickness insurance - Repayment of medical expenses - Serious illness - Management committee - Medical expertise)
   (2007/C 269/124)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Patricia Botos (Meise, Belgium) (represented by: L. Vogel, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J. Currall and K. Herrmann, Agents)
   Re:
   Annulment of the appointing authority's decision of 30 October 2006 rejecting the complaint brought by the applicant against six administrative decisions concerning inter alia the recognition of her illness as a serious illness for the purposes of fixing the level of reimbursement of medical expenses under Article 72(1) of the Staff Regulations.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Tribunal:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decisions of the Commission of the European Communities of 23 January 2006 and 30 October 2006, inasmuch as they refuse Mrs Botos repayment of the costs of the tests carried out by RED Laboratories and Ategis at the normal rate of the joint sickness insurance scheme;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Mrs Botos to bear two thirds of her own costs;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Commission of the European Communities to bear its own costs and to pay one third of Mrs Botos's costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 69, 24.3.2007, p. 31.