CELEX: 62018TA0402
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-402/18: Judgment of the General Court of 29 January 2020 — Aquino and Others v Parliament (Civil service — Strike action by interpreters — Measures for the requisition of interpreters adopted by the European Parliament — No legal basis — Liability — Non-material damage)

9.3.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 77/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 January 2020 — Aquino and Others v Parliament
      (Case T-402/18) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Strike action by interpreters - Measures for the requisition of interpreters adopted by the European Parliament - No legal basis - Liability - Non-material damage)
      (2020/C 77/62)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Roberto Aquino (Brussels, Belgium) and the 25 and the other applicants whose names are set out in the annex to the judgment (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: O. Caisou-Rousseau, T. Lazian and E. Taneva, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decision of 2 July 2018 of the Parliament’s Director-General for Personnel requisitioning interpreters and conference interpreters for 3 July 2018 and of the subsequent decisions of the Parliament’s Director-General for Personnel requisitioning interpreters and conference interpreters for 4, 5, 10 and 11 July 2018 and, secondly, compensation for the non-material damage, assessed on an equitable basis at EUR 1 000 per person, which the applicants allegedly suffered as a result of those decisions.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the decision of 2 July 2018 of the Director-General for Personnel of the European Parliament requisitioning interpreters and conference interpreters for 3 July 2018;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Parliament to pay the sum of EUR 500 each to Barbara Carli-Ganotis, Claudine de Seze, Maria Corina Diaconu Olszewski, Maria Provata, Irène Sevastikoglou and Benedetta Tissi;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Parliament to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicants requisitioned by the decision of 2 July 2018, including the costs relating to the interim measures proceedings and those relating to the intervention of the Council of the European Union;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the applicants requisitioned by the decisions adopted after the action was brought to bear their own costs;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Council to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 364, 8.10.2018.