CELEX: 62018TA0061
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Affaire T-61/18: Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2019 — Rodriguez Prieto v Commission (Civil Service — Officials — ‘Eurostat’ case — National criminal proceedings — No need to adjudicate — Request for assistance — Whistle-blower — Presumption of innocence — Action for damages and annulment)

27.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 4 April 2019 — Rodriguez Prieto v Commission
      (Affaire T-61/18) (1)
      
      (Civil Service - Officials - ‘Eurostat’ case - National criminal proceedings - No need to adjudicate - Request for assistance - Whistle-blower - Presumption of innocence - Action for damages and annulment)
      (2019/C 182/35)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Amador Rodriguez Prieto (Steinsel, Luxembourg) (represented by: S. Orlandi, T. Martin and R. Garcia-Valdecasas y Fernandez, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin and R. Striani, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking, primarily, compensation for the material and non-material damage which the appl cant alleges to have suffered and, in the alternative, annulment of the decision of the Commission of 28 March 2017 rejecting the applicant’s request for assistance.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the claims for damages;
                  
               
            
                  2)
               
               
                  
                     Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 28 March 2017 rejecting Mr Amador Rodriguez Prieto’s request for assistance;
                  
               
            
                  3)
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Mr Rodriguez Prieto.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 134, 16.4.2018.