CELEX: C1998/340/45
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-07 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 23 July 1998 by Dolores Rodriguez Pérez, Francisco Andrada Sanz, Pablo Fernández Ruiz, Fabriciano Corchete Vicente, Antonio Oliva Español, Miguel Alay Marcos, Geraldine O'Shea, Ana Luisa Muller, Alfonso Novoa Diz, Ernesto Pérez Carbonell, Alfredo Escribano Martínez, Soledad Blanco Mangudo, Enrique Rojas de Montis, Joan Antoni Salmurri Trintxet, Federica Burel Louberry, Elena Frutos Zamarrón, Rafael Aguirre Unceta, Manuel Parejo Pagador, Pablo Pardo Ortiz, Santiago Vazquez Souto, Concepción Sanmartín Quintela, Saturnino Durán Vidal, Luis Guembe Casi and Alfonso Ruiz de Azúa Castaño against the Commission of the European Communities (Case T-114/98)

C 340/22             EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7.11.98
at Cesena (Italy), represented by Carlo Piccoli and                 1. the application is dismissed as inadmissible.
Fabrizio Fabbri, of the Forlì-Cesena Bar, and FrancËois
Turk, of the Luxembourg Bar, with an address for service            2. the applicant shall bear the whole of the costs.
in Luxembourg at the latter's Chambers, 13a Avenue
Guillaume, v. Commission of the European Communities                (1) OJ C 137 of 2.5.1998.
(Agent: Francesco P. Ruggeri Laderchi) Ð application for
partial annulment of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1488/97 of 29 July 1997 amending Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of
agricultural products and indications referring thereto on
                                                                                   ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 202 of
                                                                              OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
30.7.1997, p. 12) Ð the Court of First Instance (First
Chamber), composed of: B. Vesterdorf, President, and                                      of 12 August 1998
R. M. Moura Ramos and P. Mengozzi, Judges; H. Jung,                 in Case T-42/98 R: Maria Paola Sabbatucci v. European
Registrar, made an order on 9 September 1998, the                                              Parliament
operative part of which is as follows:
                                                                    (Application for interim measures Ð Amicable settlement
                                                                    Ð Binding nature Ð Mandatory removal from the
1. the application is dismissed as inadmissible;
                                                                                        register Ð Conditions)
                                                                                             (98/C 340/44)
2. the applicants are to pay the costs.                                             (Language of the case: Italian)
                                                                    In Case T-42/98 R: Maria Paola Sabbatucci, an official of
(1) OJ C 387 of 20.12.1997.                                         the European Parliament, residing in Luxembourg,
                                                                    represented by Alberto Dal Ferro and Andrea Cevese, of
                                                                    the Vicenza Bar, with an address for service at the
                                                                    Chambers of Mr Morresi, 67 Avenue des Nerviens,
                                                                    Brussels, v. European Parliament (Agents: Antonio Caiola
                                                                    and Evelyn Waldherr) Ð application for interim measures
                                                                    made pursuant to Article 91(4) of the Staff Regulations of
     ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                           officials of the European Communities and in accordance
                      (Fourth Chamber)                              with Articles 185 and 186 of the EC Treaty Ð the
                                                                    President of the Court of First Instance made an order on
                    of 17 September 1998                            12 August 1998, the operative part of which is as follows:
in Case T-40/98: Giuliano Pagliarani v. Commission of               1. Case T-42/98 R is removed from the register.
                the European Communities (1)
                                                                    2. The costs are reserved.
(Officials Ð Determination of grade Ð New facts Ð Not
                         permissible)
                        (98/C 340/43)
               (Language of the case: French)                       Action brought on 23 July 1998 by Dolores Rodriguez
                                                                    PeÂrez, Francisco Andrada Sanz, Pablo FernaÂndez Ruiz,
                                                                    Fabriciano Corchete Vicente, Antonio Oliva EspanÄol,
In Case T-40/98: Giuliano Pagliarani, member of the                 Miguel Alay Marcos, Geraldine O'Shea, Ana Luisa
temporary staff of the Commission of the European                   Muller, Alfonso Novoa Diz, Ernesto PeÂrez Carbonell,
Communities, residing in Brussels, represented by Mario             Alfredo Escribano Martínez, Soledad Blanco Mangudo,
Spandre and Claudio Mereu, of the Brussels Bar, with an             Enrique Rojas de Montis, Joan Antoni Salmurri Trintxet,
address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Mr             Federica Burel Louberry, Elena Frutos Zamarrón, Rafael
Thielen, 21 rue de Nassau, against Commission of the                Aguirre Unceta, Manuel Parejo Pagador, Pablo Pardo
European Communities (Agents: Gianluigi Valsesia and                Ortiz, Santiago Vazquez Souto, Concepción Sanmartín
Christine Berardis-Kayser) Ð application for, first, the            Quintela, Saturnino DuraÂn Vidal, Luis Guembe Casi and
annulment of the decision of the appointing authority of            Alfonso Ruiz de AzuÂa CastanÄo against the Commission of
28 October 1993 classifying the applicant in Grade B 3                                the European Communities
step 3 and of the decision of the appointing authority of                                  (Case T-114/98)
8 December 1997 rejecting the applicant's complaint
                                                                                             (98/C 340/45)
inasmuch as it does not take account of certified
professional experience and, secondly, a claim for                                 (Language of the case: Spanish)
compensation for material damage allegedly suffered by
the applicant as a result of those decisions Ð the Court of         An action against the Commission of the European
First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of: P. Lindh,             Communities was brought before the Court of First
President, K. Lenaerts and J. D. Cooke, Judges; H. Jung,            Instance of the European Communities on 23 July 1998
Registrar, made an order on 17 September 1998, the                  by Dolores Rodriguez PeÂrez, Francisco Andrada Sanz,
operative part of which is as follows:                              Pablo FernaÂndez Ruiz, Fabriciano Corchete Vicente,
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Antonio Oliva EspanÄol, Miguel Alay Marcos, Geraldine               twelve years of negotiation, no agreement has yet been
O'Shea, Ana Luisa Muller, Alfonso Novoa Diz, Ernesto                reached on the content of the said Royal Decree.
PeÂrez Carbonell, Alfredo Escribano Martínez, Soledad
Blanco Mangudo, Enrique Rojas de Montis, Joan Antoni                The applicants also submit that the defendant has
Salmurri Trintxet, Federica Burel Louberry, Elena Frutos            gone too far in withdrawing the technical assistance
Zamarrón, Rafael Aguirre Unceta, Manuel Parejo                      accorded, knowing that they are engaged in proceedings
Pagador, Pablo Pardo Ortiz, Santiago Vazquez Souto,                 before the Spanish courts. Despite the appointing
Concepción Sanmartín Quintela, Saturnino DuraÂn Vidal,              authority's assertion in its decision that the withdrawal
Luis Guembe Casi and Alfonso Ruiz de AzuÂa CastanÄo,                of technical assistance does not imply discontinuance
residing in Brussels and Luxembourg, represented by                 of the proceedings brought, in practice it does entail
Antonio Creus and BegonÄa Uriarte Valiente, of the                  discontinuance as the applicants are deprived of the
Barcelona and Madrid Bar, with an address for service in            technical assistance of their institution.
Brussels at 78 Avenue d'Auderghem.
                                                                    Finally, the applicants plead breach of the duty to state
                                                                    reasons in this case.
The applicants claim that the Court should:
Ð annul the Commission Decision of 10 November
     1997, refusing to provide the applicants with financial
     and technical assistance in their action concerning the
     transfer of pension rights acquired under the Spanish          Action brought on 23 July 1998 by JoseÂ Ma Olivares
     pension scheme, and the Decision of 19 June 1998               Ramos, Angel VinÄas Martín, Paloma Díez Pardo, Carlos
     rejecting the complaint made by the applicants;                Gil Renaux, JoseÂ Luis Roselló López, Rosario DomeÂnech
                                                                    Cobo, Miguel Lobato GonzaÂlez, Eduardo PenÄa Abizanda,
                                                                    Manuel de Lucas Casas, Eduardo Sorribes Manzana,
Ð order the Commission to pay the costs of these                    Ricardo Puente Sala, JoseÂ Ma Plaza SaÂnchez, JoseÂ Ramón
     proceedings.                                                   Borrell Nivera, Francisco FernaÂndez Ruiz, Rafael García
                                                                    Palencia, Antonio Espino Morcillo, Bonifacio Marín
Pleas in law and main arguments adduced in support:                 PeÂrez, Teresa de la Mora, Pablo Amor Echeverri, Luis
                                                                    Montoya Morón, Amador Rodríguez Prieto, Marco
                                                                    Marcos Rodríguez, Emilio López Menchero, Leopoldo
The applicants, who are Commission officials, take issue
                                                                    Fabra Utray, Gonzalo Molina Igartua, Gonzalo GimeÂnez
with the refusal of the appointing authority to provide
                                                                    AndreÂs, Pedro Tarno FernaÂndez, Manuel Rodríguez
them with financial and technical assistance in the
                                                                    Alonso, Ana María Cobos Aguirre, Fernando Truyols
proceedings brought before the national courts regarding
                                                                    Zaforteza, Isabel de Eguía Antolín, Victor Pou Serradell,
the absence under Spanish law of any means of
                                                                    Lucía Ramón Amat, Joaquín FerraÂn PeÂrez-Portabella,
transferring pension rights acquired under the Spanish
                                                                    JesuÂs SuaÂrez Avila, Pablo JimeÂnez FernaÂndez, Rosa
pension scheme to the Community scheme. In the
                                                                    Quevedo Díez, Angeles Santos Asenjo, Francisco de
abovementioned decision of 10 November 1997, the
                                                                    Vicente, Carlos Arroyos, Antonio Lopez PenÄa, Valeriano
Commission justified its refusal by reference to the
                                                                    Díaz García, Alfonso GonzaÂlez Finat, Antonio FernaÂndez
advanced stage reached in the negotiations with the
                                                                    AvileÂs, Miguel AbellaÂn López, Angel GonzaÂlez Leiro,
Spanish State regarding the adoption of a Royal Decree to
                                                                    Fernando Aragón Morales, Rafael Valls i Pursals, JesuÂs
fill the legal vacuum, and to the fact that the Kingdom of
                                                                    Garijo, Alexandre Checchi Lang, Rafael Cepas Palanca,
Spain had already been explicitly condemned by the Court
                                                                    Eduardo de la PenÄa Vega, Antonio Alonso Madero, Jaime
of Justice over the same matter.
                                                                    Díez-Canseco, Enrique Juaristi Martínez and Pablo
                                                                    Benavides against the Commission of the European
This action is based on the breach of the principle of                                       Communities
equal treatment, in that the applicants suffered                                          (Case T-115/98)
discrimination in comparison with other Spanish officials
who, in an identical case a few months previously,                                          (98/C 340/46)
received financial assistance from the institution, and in
                                                                                   (Language of the case: Spanish)
comparison with other officials who, in similar cases, were
also assisted by their institution.                                 An action against the Commission of the European
                                                                    Communities was brought before the Court of First
The applicants, for their part, submit that in this case the        Instance of the European Communities on 23 July 1998
Commission has confused technical assistance' with the             by JoseÂ Ma Olivares Ramos, Angel VinÄas Martín, Paloma
pursuit of negotiations with the Spanish State. However,            Díez Pardo, Carlos Gil Renaux, JoseÂ Luis Roselló López,
in their opinion, the negotiation with the national                 Rosario DomeÂnech Cobo, Miguel Lobato GonzaÂlez,
authorities of a legal provision which will allow pension           Eduardo PenÄa Abizanda, Manuel de Lucas Casas,
rights to be transferred cannot be considered to be                 Eduardo Sorribes Manzana, Ricardo Puente Sala, Jose Ma
technical assistance' within the meaning of Article 24 of          Plaza SaÂnchez, JoseÂ Ramón Borrell Nivera, Francisco
the Staff Regulations since such negotiations fall within           FernaÂndez Ruiz, Rafael García Palencia, Antonio Espino
the obligations incumbent upon the Commission under                 Morcillo, Bonifacio Marín PeÂrez, Teresa de la Mora,
Article 155 of the Treaty and, even if their pursuit could          Pablo Amor Echeverri, Luis Montoya Morón, Amador
be considered to be technical assistance', quod non, it            Rodríguez Prieto, Marco Marcos Rodríguez, Emilio López
could not be considered genuine or effective, since, after          Menchero, Leopoldo Fabra Utray, Gonzalo Molina