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(Case T-694/19) (1)
(Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18, 19 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Proportionality)
(2021/C 163/31)
Language of the case: French
Applicant: FI (represented by: F. Moyse, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin and T. Bohr, acting as Agents)
Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: J. Van Pottelberge and J. Steele, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)
Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decisions of 8 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 rejecting the application for the award of a survivor’s pension to the applicant.
The Court:
1.Annuls the decisions of the European Commission of 8 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 rejecting the application for the award of a survivor’s pension to FI;
2.Orders the Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by FI;
3.Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs.
(1) OJ C 399, 25.11.2019.