CELEX: 62016TA0543
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-543/16 and T-544/16: Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018 — Carpenito and Others v Council (Civil service — Remuneration — Annual adjustment of the remuneration and pensions of officials and other EU staff — Regulations (EU) No 422/2014 and No 423/2014 — Adjustments of salaries and pensions for the years 2011 and 2012 — Duty to state reasons — Proportionality — Legitimate expectations — Rules on social dialogue)

4.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/44
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018 — Carpenito and Others v Council
      (Joined Cases T-543/16 and T-544/16) (1)
      
      ((Civil service - Remuneration - Annual adjustment of the remuneration and pensions of officials and other EU staff - Regulations (EU) No 422/2014 and No 423/2014 - Adjustments of salaries and pensions for the years 2011 and 2012 - Duty to state reasons - Proportionality - Legitimate expectations - Rules on social dialogue))
      (2019/C 82/50)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant in Case T-543/16: Renzo Carpenito (Overijse, Belgium) (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
      
         Applicants in Case T-544/16: Maria Kannellopoulou (Cranves-Sales, France), José Carlos Lechado García (Brussels, Belgium), Bernd Loescher (Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium), Evelina Milenova (Brussels) (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented initially by M. Bauer and M. Veiga and subsequently by M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Ecker and E. Taneva, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the Council decisions to apply to the applicants’ salaries or pensions the 0 % adjustment for the year 2011 provided for in Regulation (EU) No 422/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014, adjusting with effect from 1 July 2011 the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Union and the correction coefficients applied thereto (OJ 2014 L 129, p. 5), and the 0,8 % adjustment for the year 2012, provided for in Regulation (EU) No 423/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 adjusting with effect from 1 July 2012 the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants of the European Union and the correction coefficients applied thereto (OJ 2014 L 129, p. 12), and, secondly, compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicants as a result of those decisions.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Dismisses the actions;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the applicants to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament to pay its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 146, 4.5.2015 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under Case No F-31/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).