CELEX: 62016TA0482
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-482/16 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2017 — Arango Jaramillo and Others v EIB (Civil service — EIB Staff — Time limit for bringing an action — Reasonable period of time — Pension — 2008 Reform — Contractual nature of the employment relationship — Proportionality — Obligation to state reasons — Legal certainty — Liability — Non-material damage)

5.2.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2017 — Arango Jaramillo and Others v EIB
   (Case T-482/16 RENV) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - EIB Staff - Time limit for bringing an action - Reasonable period of time - Pension - 2008 Reform - Contractual nature of the employment relationship - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons - Legal certainty - Liability - Non-material damage))
   (2018/C 042/23)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Oscar Orlando Arango Jaramillo (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and the 33 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the judgment (represented by: C. Cortese and B. Cortese, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Investment Bank (represented initially by C. Gómez de la Cruz and T. Gilliams, and subsequently by T. Gilliams and G. Nuvoli and lastly by T. Gilliams and G. Faedo, acting as Agents, and by P.-E. Partsch, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of the decisions of the EIB, contained in the applicants’ payslips for the month of February 2010, to increase their pension contribution rates and, secondly, an order that the EIB pay a symbolic EUR 1 by way of compensation for the non-material harm allegedly suffered by the applicants.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Oscar Orlando Arango Jaramillo and the other staff members of the European Investment Bank (EIB) whose names appear in the annex to pay the costs of these proceedings.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the EIB to pay the costs incurred in Cases F-34/10, T-234/11 P and T-234/11 P RENV–RX.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 234, 28.8.2010 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under Case No F-34/10).