CELEX: 62016TA0611
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-611/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — Trautmann v EEAS (Civil service — Officials — Remuneration — Family allowances — Education allowance — Article 15 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations — Conditions for grant — Article 3(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations — Regular full-time attendance at an educational establishment which charges fees — Article 85 of the Staff Regulations — Recovery of sums overpaid — Obligation to state reasons — Right to be heard)

5.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — Trautmann v EEAS
   (Case T-611/16) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - Officials - Remuneration - Family allowances - Education allowance - Article 15 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for grant - Article 3(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations - Regular full-time attendance at an educational establishment which charges fees - Article 85 of the Staff Regulations - Recovery of sums overpaid - Obligation to state reasons - Right to be heard))
   (2018/C 042/28)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ernst Ulrich Trautmann (Kraainem, Belgium) (represented by: M. Meyer, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European External Action Service (EEAS) (represented by: S. Marquardt and R. Weiss, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, the annulment (i) of the decision of the appointing authority of the EEAS of 18 November 2015 to reassess the amount of the education allowance due to the applicant, (ii) of the decision of the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements (PMO) of 12 January 2016 to recover, by means of deductions from pay, the sums unduly paid to the applicant, (iii) of the decision of 12 May 2016 rejecting the complaints against those decisions, and, second, and an order requiring the EEAS to return to the applicant the sums previously paid in accordance with his right to the education allowance.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Ernst Ulrich Trautmann to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 371, 10.10.2016 (case initially registered before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union under the number F-41/16 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).