CELEX: 62010TA0431
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-431/10 and T-560/10: Judgment of the General Court of 4 June 2013 — Nencini v Parliament (Rules Governing the Payment of Expenses and Allowances to Members of the European Parliament — Travel and parliamentary assistance expenses — Recovery of undue payments — Limitation period — Reasonable period — Rights of the defence — Principle of audi alteram partem — Proportionality)

3.8.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/64
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 4 June 2013 — Nencini v Parliament
   (Joined Cases T-431/10 and T-560/10) (1)
   
   (Rules Governing the Payment of Expenses and Allowances to Members of the European Parliament - Travel and parliamentary assistance expenses - Recovery of undue payments - Limitation period - Reasonable period - Rights of the defence - Principle of audi alteram partem - Proportionality)
   2013/C 225/142
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Riccardo Nencini (Barberino del Mugello, Italy) (represented by: F. Bertini and M. Chiti, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Parliament (represented initially by N. Lorenz, D. Moore and A. Caiola, and subsequently by N. Lorenz, D. Moore and G. Ricci, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Applications, primarily, for annulment brought against the Decisions of the Secretary General of the European Parliament of 16 July 2010 and 7 October 2010 relating to the recovery of certain sums received by the applicant, a former Member of the European Parliament, in respect of travel and parliamentary assistance expenses unduly paid, the Debit Notes of the Director General of the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Finances, No 312331 of 4 August 2010 and No 315653 of 13 October 2010, and any other related and/or prior acts and, in the alternative, to remit the applications to the Secretary General of the European Parliament for a fair reassessment of the sum in respect of which recovery is sought.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action in Case T-560/10;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Riccardo Nencini to pay the costs in Case T-560/10, including the costs relating to the interim proceedings;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Case T-431/10 to be removed from the register;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear their own costs in Case T-431/10, including the costs relating to the interim proceedings.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 317, 20.11.2010.