CELEX: 62016TB0564
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-564/16: Order of the General Court of 9 November 2017 — Bowles v ECB (Civil service — ECB Staff — Remuneration — Salary increase — Members of the Staff Committee — Eligibility — Action for annulment — No need to adjudicate — Action for damages — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

15.1.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/17
            
         Order of the General Court of 9 November 2017 — Bowles v ECB
   (Case T-564/16) (1)
   
   ((Civil service - ECB Staff - Remuneration - Salary increase - Members of the Staff Committee - Eligibility - Action for annulment - No need to adjudicate - Action for damages - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law))
   (2018/C 013/29)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Carlos Bowles (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: initially by L. Levi and A. Tymen, and subsequently by L. Levi, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Central Bank (ECB) (represented by: F. Malfrère and E. Carlini, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, annulment of (i) the decision of 24 February 2015, communicated to staff on 13 March 2015, whereby the ECB refused to grant the applicant an additional salary increase for the year 2015 and (ii) the decision dismissing the special appeal of 9 July 2015, and, second, compensation for the damage which the applicant claims to have suffered.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the claim for annulment.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The action is dismissed as to the remainder, as manifestly lacking any foundation in law.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Each party is ordered to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 16, 18.1.2016 (Case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-130/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1 September 2016).