CELEX: 62016TA0523
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-523/16 and T-542/16: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2019 — Ardalic and Others v Council (Civil service — Officials — Members of the contract staff — Reform of the Staff Regulation — Less favourable scheme for the flat-rate payment of travel expenses and for the increase in annual leave by way of additional days off as travelling time — Link between the grant of those benefits and expatriate or foreign resident status — Abolition of the reimbursement of annual travel expenses and of travelling time)

1.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/32
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2019 — Ardalic and Others v Council
      (Case T-523/16 and T-542/16) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Members of the contract staff - Reform of the Staff Regulation - Less favourable scheme for the flat-rate payment of travel expenses and for the increase in annual leave by way of additional days off as travelling time - Link between the grant of those benefits and expatriate or foreign resident status - Abolition of the reimbursement of annual travel expenses and of travelling time)
      (2019/C 220/41)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Jakov Ardalic (Brussels, Belgium) and the 11 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the judgment (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: initially M. Bauer and M. Veiga, and subsequently M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents),
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: E. Taneva and M. Ecker, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Applications on the basis of Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the decisions no longer to grant the applicants, as from 1 January 2014, travelling time or reimbursement of annual travel expenses so that they may maintain a relationship with their place of origin.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Joins Cases T-523/16 and T-542/16 for the purposes of the judgment;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the actions;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Mr Jakov Ardalic and the other officials or members of staff of the Council of the European Union whose names appear in the annex to the judgment to pay the costs;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Parliament to pay its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 448, 15.12.2014 (case initially registered at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-100/14 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).