24.1.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 37/22

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(Case C-714/21 P)

(2022/C 37/29)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Appellant: Françoise Grossetête (represented by: J. M. Martínez Gimeno, abogado, D. Sarmiento Ramírez-Escudero, abogado, E. Arnaldos Orts, abogado, and F. Doumont, avocat)

Other party to the proceedings: European Parliament

Form of order sought

The appellant claims that the Court should:

—set aside the judgment under appeal in its entirety;

—rule on the dispute and annul the Parliament’s decision contained in the notice fixing the additional pension rights owed to the appellant in so far as it introduces a special levy of 5 % of the nominal amount of her pension, payable directly into the additional voluntary pension fund;

—order the Parliament to pay the costs of the appeal proceedings and the costs of the proceedings before the General Court in Case T-722/19.

Grounds of appeal and main arguments

The grounds of appeal allege: (i) the Bureau’s lack of competence to take the decision of the Bureau of 2018, inter alia in so far as it lays down substantive conditions for rights conferring prospective entitlement before the entry into force of the Staff Regulations; (ii) infringement of the first sentence of Article 27(2) of the Staff Regulations by reason of non-observance of rights conferring prospective entitlement prior to the entry into force of the Staff Regulations; (iii) infringement of the principle of equality and non-discrimination and of the principle of proportionality; and (iv) infringement of the principle of legal certainty (lack of transitional measures) and the principle of legitimate expectations.

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