CELEX: 62014TA0531
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-531/14: Judgment of the General Court of 3 May 2017 — Sotiropoulou and Others v Council (Non-contractual liability — Economic and monetary policy — Decisions addressed to a Member State with a view to remedying an excessive deficit situation — Reduction in and withdrawal of pension rights in Greece — Sufficiently serious infringement of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals)

3.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/25
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 May 2017 — Sotiropoulou and Others v Council
   (Case T-531/14) (1)
   
   ((Non-contractual liability - Economic and monetary policy - Decisions addressed to a Member State with a view to remedying an excessive deficit situation - Reduction in and withdrawal of pension rights in Greece - Sufficiently serious infringement of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals))
   (2017/C 213/32)
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Leïmonia Sotiropoulou (Patras, Greece) and the 63 other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: K. Chrysogonos, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: A. de Gregorio Merino, E. Chatziioakeimidou and E. Dumitriu-Segnana, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne and M. Konstantinidis, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action on the basis of Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the loss allegedly suffered by the applicants as a result of the adoption of the decisions of the Council addressed to the Hellenic Republic in activation of the mechanism provided for in Article 126 TFEU.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Ms Leïmonia Sotiropoulou and the other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 351, 6.10.2014.