CELEX: 62018TA0243
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-243/18: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — VW v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Surviving spouse — Survivor’s pension — Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Conditions for eligibility — Duration of the marriage — Plea of illegality — Equal treatment — Principle of proportionality)

15.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/32
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — VW v Commission
      (Case T-243/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Principle of proportionality)
      (2021/C 53/41)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: VW (represented by: N. de Montigny, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin and L. Vernier, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: D. Boytha and J. Steele, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decision of the Commission of 26 June 2017 dismissing the applicant’s application for a survivor’s pension and, in so far as is necessary, of the decision rejecting the complaint against that decision of 19 January 2018.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 26 June 2017 dismissing VW’s application for a survivor’s pension;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by VW;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 231, 2.7.2018.