CELEX: 62010FJ0119
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-29
Title: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 29 November 2011. # Roberto Di Tullio v European Commission. # Public service. # Case F-119/10.

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                               JUDGMENT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE TRIBUNAL
                                                 (Third Chamber)
                                                29 November 2011
                                                   Case F-119/10
                                                Roberto Di Tullio
                                                         v
                                             European Commission
      (Civil service — Members of the temporary staff — Leave for national service — Article 18 of the
      Conditions of Employment of Other Servants — Professional soldier — Completion of a period of
                                         territorial command — Refusal)
   Application:brought under Article 270 TFEU, applicable to the EAEC Treaty by virtue of Article 106a
                  thereof, in which Mr Di Tullio principally seeks annulment of the decision by which the
                  Commission refused to grant him leave for national service.
   Held:          The applicant’s action is dismissed. The applicant is to bear all the costs.
                                                      Summary
   Officials — Members of the temporary staff — Leave for national service — Military service —
   Definition
   (Conditions of Employment of Other Servants, Art. 18, first para.)
   According to the first sentence of the first paragraph of Article 18 of the Conditions of Employment of
   Other Servants, a member of the temporary staff who is called up for military service, alternative
   services or reserve training or who is recalled to serve in the armed forces shall be assigned leave for
   national service.
   The situation referred to in the first paragraph of Article 18 of the Conditions of Employment is clearly
   only that in which a member of the temporary staff is required, under national legislation on military
   service, to complete in the Member State of which he is a national a limited period of military
   training, for example as a reserve officer. The provisions do not, on the other hand, refer to a
   situation in which a national civil servant is required, at the end of a period of secondment to the
   European institutions under a contract as a member of the temporary staff, to rejoin his
   administration in order to satisfy obligations associated with the progress of his career, even if that
   civil servant belongs to a body whose members are subject to military rules and discipline.
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          ECLI:EU:F:2011:188                                                                               1
 ---pagebreak---                                        SUMMARY – CASE F-119/10
                                       DI TULLIO v COMMISSION
Moreover, a member of the temporary staff may be regarded as ‘recalled to serve in the armed forces’
within the meaning of the first paragraph of Article 18 of the Conditions of Employment of Other
Servants only if one or more age groups are recalled because of the threat of armed conflict, for
example.
                                                                                    (see paras 35, 38, 40)
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