Official Journal of the European Union

C 222/37

(Case F-92/15) (*)

((Civil service - Former official - Social security - Accident - Article 73 of the Staff Regulations - Closure of the procedure - Fixing of rate of partial permanent invalidity - Payment supplementary to the lump sum paid in the event of partial permanent invalidity - Implementation of a judgment annulling a measure - Incurable and total deafness))

(2016/C 222/48)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Christian Guittet (Cannes, France) (represented by: L. Levi and A. Tymen, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T.S. Bohr, Agent, and C. Mélotte, lawyer)

Re:

Application for annulment, first, of the decision reassessing the rate of the applicant’s partial permanent invalidity and, secondly, the decision partially rejecting the applicant’s complaint, and an application seeking compensation in respect of the material and non-material harm allegedly suffered.

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

1.Annuls the decision of 6 October 2014 closing the procedure opened under Article 73 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union following the accident of 8 December 2003, of which Mr Guittet was the victim, in so far as that decision fixed at 65 % the rate of partial permanent invalidity granted to Mr Guittet under Article 12 of the rules common to the institutions of the European Union on insurance against the risk of accident and of occupational disease, in the version in force prior to 1 January 2006;

2.Orders the European Commission to pay Mr Guittet the sum of EUR 5 000;

3.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

4.Declares that the European Commission is to bear its own costs and orders it to pay the costs incurred by Mr Guittet.

(*) Language of the case: French.

(1) OJ C 294, 7/9/2015, p. 83.