CELEX: 62009FA0049
Language: en
Date: 2010-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Case F-49/09: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 12 October 2010 — Wendler v Commission (Staff case — Officials — Retirement pension — Payment of pension — Obligation to open a bank account in country of residence — Freedom to provide services — Plea involving a matter of public policy — Principle of equal treatment)

15.1.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/37
            
         Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 12 October 2010 — Wendler v Commission
   (Case F-49/09) (1)
   
   (Staff case - Officials - Retirement pension - Payment of pension - Obligation to open a bank account in country of residence - Freedom to provide services - Plea involving a matter of public policy - Principle of equal treatment)
   2011/C 13/72
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Eberhard Wendler (Laveno Mombello, Italy) (represented by: M. Müller-Trawinski, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Martin and B. Eggers, agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and K. Zieleśkiewicz, agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of the Commission’s request that the applicant designate a bank account in his country of residence for his pension payments.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Tribunal:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses Mr Wendler’s action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Wendler to bear his own costs and to pay the costs of the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 167 of 18.07.2009, p. 27.