CELEX: 62017TA0119
Language: en
Date: 2018-04-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-119/17: Judgment of the General Court of 13 April 2018 –Alba Aguilera and Others v EEAS (Civil service — Officials — Members of the temporary staff — Members of the contract staff — Remuneration — EEAS staff posted to a third country — Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — Annual assessment of the allowance for living conditions — Decision reducing the allowance for living conditions in Ethiopia from 30 % to 25 % — Failure to adopt general implementing provisions giving effect to Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — Liability — Non-material damage)

4.6.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 190/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 April 2018 –Alba Aguilera and Others v EEAS
   (Case T-119/17) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - Officials - Members of the temporary staff - Members of the contract staff - Remuneration - EEAS staff posted to a third country - Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Annual assessment of the allowance for living conditions - Decision reducing the allowance for living conditions in Ethiopia from 30 % to 25 % - Failure to adopt general implementing provisions giving effect to Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Liability - Non-material damage))
   (2018/C 190/47)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Ruben Alba Aguilera (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and the other EEAS officials and agents whose names are listed in the annex (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European External Action Service (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Spac, acting as Agents, and by M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 270 TFEU seeking (i) the annulment of the EEAS decision of 19 April 2016 reducing, as of 1 January 2016, the allowance for living conditions paid to European Union staff posted to Ethiopia; and (ii), compensation in respect of the non-material damage allegedly suffered by the applicants.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of 19 April 2016 reducing, as of 1 January 2016, the allowance for living conditions paid to European Union staff posted to Ethiopia from 30 % to 25 % of the reference amount;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the EEAS to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 129, 24.4.2017.