CELEX: 62016TA0554
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-554/16: Judgment of the General Court of 30 June 2021 — BZ v ECB (Public service — ECB staff — Application for recognition of the occupational origin of a disease — Articles 6.3.11 to 6.3.13 of the ECB Staff Rules — Irregularity of the procedure — No inquiry report — Non-contractual liability)

9.8.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 320/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 30 June 2021 — BZ v ECB
      (Case T-554/16) (1)
      
      (Public service - ECB staff - Application for recognition of the occupational origin of a disease - Articles 6.3.11 to 6.3.13 of the ECB Staff Rules - Irregularity of the procedure - No inquiry report - Non-contractual liability)
      (2021/C 320/38)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: BZ (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: E. Carlini and F. Malfrère, acting as Agents, assisted by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking, first, annulment of the decision of the ECB of 23 July 2014 which closed the procedure for recognition of the occupational origin of the applicant’s disease, and second, compensation for the material and non-material harm that the applicant allegedly suffered as a result of that decision.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 23 July 2014 which closed the procedure for recognition of the occupational origin of BZ’s disease;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the ECB to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 279, 24.8.2015 (case initially registered at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-79/15 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).