CELEX: 62017TA0170
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-170/17: Judgment of the General Court of 8 May 2019 — RW v Commission (Civil Service — Officials — Article 42c of the Staff Regulations — Leave in the interests of the service — Automatic retirement — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Scope of the law — Literal, contextual and teleological interpretation)

1.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 May 2019 — RW v Commission
      (Case T-170/17) (1)
      
      (Civil Service - Officials - Article 42c of the Staff Regulations - Leave in the interests of the service - Automatic retirement - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Scope of the law - Literal, contextual and teleological interpretation)
      (2019/C 220/44)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: RW (represented by: S. Orlandi and T. Martin, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by G. Berscheid and A.-C. Simon, and subsequently by G. Berscheid and B. Mongin, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 2 March 2017 to place the applicant on leave in the interests of the service pursuant to Article 42c of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and, at the same time, to require him to take compulsory retirement pursuant to subparagraph 5 of that provision.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Annuls the Commission’s decision of 2 March 2017 by which RW was placed on leave in the interests of the service and, at the same time, required to take compulsory retirement;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by RW, including those relating to the interlocutory proceedings.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 161, 22.5.2017.