31.10.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 418/19

(Case T-529/20) (*)

(Civil service - EIB staff - Remuneration - Resettlement allowance - Establishment of a member of staff’s residence in his or her own home after leaving the service of the EIB - Second indent of the first paragraph of Article 13 of the EIB Staff Rules - Concept of ‘home’ - Literal interpretation according to a prevailing language version - Unlimited jurisdiction - Dispute of a financial character - Admissibility)

(2022/C 418/23)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: LR (represented by: J.L. Gómez de la Cruz Coll and M. Casado García-Hirschfeld, lawyers)

Defendant: European Investment Bank (represented by: A.V. García Sánchez and I. Zanin, acting as Agents, and by A. Manzaneque Valverde and J. Rivas de Andrés, lawyers)

Re:

By his action based on Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the applicant seeks, first, annulment of the decision of the European Investment Bank (EIB) of 9 January 2020 refusing him the benefit of the resettlement allowance and, secondly, an order that the EIB pay the resettlement allowance, together with default interest calculated at the European Central Bank (ECB) rate, increased by two percentage points.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Annuls the decision of the European Investment Bank (EIB) of 9 January 2020 refusing to grant LR the benefit of the resettlement allowance;

2.Orders the EIB to pay to LR the allowance referred to in point 1 of the operative part, plus default interest, from 4 September 2019 until the date of actual payment, at the rate set by the European Central Bank (ECB) for its main refinancing operations and applicable during the period concerned, increased by two percentage points;

3.Orders the EIB to pay the costs.

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Language of the case: Spanish.

OJ C 339, 12.10.2020

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ECLI:EU:C:2022:140

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