Official Journal of the European Union

C 42/18

(Case T-577/16) (<span class="super note-tag">1</span>)

((Civil Service - Officials - Agents - Remuneration - EEAS staff posted to a third country - Article 10 of Annex X to the Staff Regulations - Annual assessment of the allowance for living conditions - Decision reducing the allowance for living conditions in Montenegro from 15 % to 10 % - Plea of illegality))

(2018/C 042/25)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Alessandro Campo (Podgorica, Montenegro) and the 12 other applicants whose names are set out in the annex to the judgment (represented by: N. de Montigny and J.-N. Louis, lawyers)

Defendant: European External Action Service (EEAS) (represented by: S. Marquardt, Agent, and M. Troncoso Ferrer, F.-M. Hislaire and S. Moya Izquierdo, lawyers)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU for annulment of the applicants’ salary slips in respect of March 2015 and of those drawn up afterwards in so far as those salary slips apply the decision of the EEAS of 23 February 2015 reducing, with effect from 1 January 2015, the allowance for living conditions paid to EU staff posted to Montenegro.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Annuls the salary slips for March 2015 of Mr Alessandro Campo and of the other officials and agents of the European External Action Service (EEAS), whose names are set out in the annex drawn up by the EEAS on the date on which the action was brought, in so far as those slips apply the decision of the EEAS of 23 February 2015 reducing, with effect from 1 January 2015, the allowance for living conditions paid to EU staff posted to Montenegro;

2.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.Orders the EEAS to pay the costs.

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(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 145, 25.4.2016 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal as Case F-6/16, transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).