CELEX: 62018TA0135
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-135/18: Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2019 — Szegedi v Parliament (Law governing the institutions — Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament — Travel expenses — Parliamentary assistance expenses — Recovery of sums unduly paid — Rights of defence — Disclosure of evidence — Obligation to state reasons — Error of fact — Proportionality)

2.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 295/26
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2019 — Szegedi v Parliament
      (Case T-135/18) (1)
      
      (Law governing the institutions - Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament - Travel expenses - Parliamentary assistance expenses - Recovery of sums unduly paid - Rights of defence - Disclosure of evidence - Obligation to state reasons - Error of fact - Proportionality)
      (2019/C 295/33)
      Language of the case: Hungarian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Csanád Szegedi (Budapest, Hungary) (represented by: K. Bodó, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: N. Görlitz, S. Seyr and B. Simon, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the decision of the Secretary-General of the Parliament of 30 November 2017 relating to the recovery from the applicant of the sum of EUR 264 196,11 unduly paid in respect of travel expenses and parliamentary assistance expenses and the related debit note of 19 December 2017.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the decision of the Secretary-General of the Parliament of 30 November 2017 relating to the recovery from Mr Csanád Szegedi of the sum of EUR 264 196,11 and the related debit note of 19 December 2017 in so far as they relate to sums paid in respect of travel expenses in the sum of EUR 8 273,83;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Mr Szegedi and the European Parliament each to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 182, 28.5.2018.