CELEX: 62019TA0694
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-694/19: Judgment of the General Court of 10 March 2021 — FI v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Surviving spouse — Survivor’s pension — Articles 18, 19 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Conditions for eligibility — Duration of the marriage — Plea of illegality — Equal treatment — Proportionality)

3.5.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 163/25
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 March 2021 — FI v Commission
      (Case T-694/19) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18, 19 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Proportionality)
      (2021/C 163/31)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: FI (represented by: F. Moyse, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin and T. Bohr, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: J. Van Pottelberge and J. Steele, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decisions of 8 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 rejecting the application for the award of a survivor’s pension to the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decisions of the European Commission of 8 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 rejecting the application for the award of a survivor’s pension to FI;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by FI;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 25.11.2019.