CELEX: 62016TA0575
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-575/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — Martinez De Prins and Others v EEAS (Civil service — Officials — Agents — 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 to reduce the allowance for living conditions in Ghana from 25 % to 20 % — Plea of illegality)

5.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — Martinez De Prins and Others v EEAS
   (Case T-575/16) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - Officials - Agents - 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 to reduce the allowance for living conditions in Ghana from 25 % to 20 % - Plea of illegality))
   (2018/C 042/24)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: David Martinez De Prins (Accra, Ghana) and the 9 other applicants whose names are annexed to the judgment (represented by: N. de Montigny and J.-N. Louis, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European External Action Service (represented by: S. Marquardt, acting as Agent, and M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking the annulment of the applicants’ salary statements of the month of March 2015 as well as their subsequent salary statements, to the extent that those statements apply the decision of the EEAS of 23 February 2015 to reduce, from 1 January 2015, the allowance for living conditions paid to EU staff posted to Ghana.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The salary statements of Mr David Martinez De Prins and the other officials and agents of the European External Action Service (EEAS) whose names are in annex established by the EEAS for the month of March 2015 are annulled to the extent that those statements apply the decision of the EEAS of 23 February 2015 to reduce, from 1 January 2015, the allowance for living conditions paid to EU staff posted to Ghana.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The action is dismissed for the remainder.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               The EEAS is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 111, 29.3.2016 (case initially registered before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union under the number F-153/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).