17.2.2020

Official Journal of the European Union

C 54/47

(Case T-100/18) (<span class="super note-tag">1</span>)

(Civil service - ECB staff - Remuneration - Expatriation allowance - Discontinuation - Liability - Material and non-material harm - Service-related fault)

(2020/C 54/52)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Christine Wehrheim (Offenbach, Germany) (represented by: N. de Montigny, lawyer)

Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: F. von Lindeiner and A. Andrzejewska, acting as Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)

Re:

Action under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking compensation for the material and non-material harm allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of the error made by the ECB in the determination of her pecuniary rights at the time of her recruitment resulting in the grant of an expatriation allowance, which was subsequently discontinued.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Orders the European Central Bank (ECB) to pay the sum of EUR 1 000 to Ms Christine Wehrheim in respect of non-material damage, together with interest, from the date of delivery of the present judgment, at the rate applied by the ECB to its main refinancing operations, increased by 3.5 percentage points, until the date of payment by the ECB of the amount of EUR 1 000;

2.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.Orders Ms Wehrheim and the ECB to bear their own costs.

(<span class="note">1</span>) OJ C 152, 30.4.2018.