CELEX: 62016TB0553
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-553/16: Order of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — von Blumenthal and Others v EIB (Civil service — EIB Staff — Remuneration — Annual adjustment of the scale of basic salaries — Calculation method — Action which has become devoid of purpose — No need to adjudicate)

9.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 413/52
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — von Blumenthal and Others v EIB
      (Case T-553/16) (1)
      
      (Civil service - EIB Staff - Remuneration - Annual adjustment of the scale of basic salaries - Calculation method - Action which has become devoid of purpose - No need to adjudicate)
      (2019/C 413/63)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Henry von Blumenthal and Others (Bergem, Luxembourg) and the 369 other applicants whose names are set out in the annex to the order (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Investment Bank (represented by: T. Gilliams, G. Faedo and J. Klein, Agents, and A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union and seeking, first, annulment of the decisions contained in the salary slips for the month of February 2015 and the subsequent months applying to the applicants the decision of the EIB’s Board of Directors dated 16 December 2014 and the decision of the EIB’s Management Committee dated 4 February 2015, and of the article published online on 6 February 2015 and the information note dated 10 February 2015 informing staff of the adoption of that latter decision and, secondly, compensation in respect of the material and non-material harm allegedly suffered by the applicants.
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
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                     Formal note is taken of the withdrawal of Mr Dominique Courbin from the proceedings.
                  
               
            
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                     There is no further need to adjudicate on the action of Mr Henry von Blumenthal and the applicants other than Mr Courbin whose names are set out in the annex.
                  
               
            
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                     The European Investment Bank (EIB) shall pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 279, 24.8.2015 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under number F-78/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).