CELEX: 62018TA0095
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-95/18: Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Gollnisch v Parliament (Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament — Parliamentary assistance allowance — Recovery of sums unduly paid — Complaint — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Rights of the defence — Obligation to state reasons — Error of fact)

30.9.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/46
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Gollnisch v Parliament
      (Case T-95/18) (1)
      
      (Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament - Parliamentary assistance allowance - Recovery of sums unduly paid - Complaint - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Rights of the defence - Obligation to state reasons - Error of fact)
      (2019/C 328/51)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Bruno Gollnisch (Villiers-le-Mahieu, France) (represented by B. Bonnefoy-Claudet, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Parliament (represented by S. Seyr and M. Ecker, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by M. Bauer, R. Meyer and A. Jensen, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the decision of the Secretary-General of the Parliament of 1 July 2016 concerning the recovery of a sum of EUR 275 984.23 unduly paid as parliamentary assistance allowance, the debit note of 5 July 2016 relating thereto, and the decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 23 October 2017 confirming the decision of the Quaestors of 14 March 2017 rejecting the complaint directed against the decision of 1 July 2016.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Mr Bruno Gollnisch to bear his own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament;
                  
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  
                     Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 142, 23.4.2018.