CELEX: 62017TA0442
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-442/17 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — RN v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Surviving spouse — Survivor’s pension — Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations — Conditions for eligibility — Duration of the marriage — Plea of illegality — Equal treatment — Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age — Proportionality — Concept of ‘spouse’)

22.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 62/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — RN v Commission
      (Case T-442/17 RENV) (1)
      
      (Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age - Proportionality - Concept of ‘spouse’)
      (2021/C 62/28)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: RN (represented by: F. Moyse, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and B. Mongin, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Ecker and E. Taneva, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decision of 24 September 2014 rejecting the applicant’s request for a survivor's pension.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 24 September 2014 rejecting RN’s request for a survivor’s pension;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by RN relating to Case F-104/15 and in the present proceedings on referral;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission and RN each to bear their own costs relating to the proceedings in Case T-695/16 P;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the European Parliament to bear its own costs relating to Case F-104/15 and the present proceedings on referral.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 302, 14.9.2015.