Official Journal of the European Union

C 364/29

(Case F-130/14) (*)

((Civil service - Official - Former official - Sums deducted from his retirement pension - Maintenance payable to the ex-wife of the former official - Attachment order adopted by a national court - Attachment order discharged - New order requiring the former official to instruct the Parliament to pay the maintenance to his ex-wife - Instructions to that effect by the former official - Subsequent instructions from the former official to cease the payments to his ex-wife - Parliament’s refusal to execute the instructions - Family law - Exclusive jurisdiction of the national court - Duty of sincere cooperation))

(2016/C 364/33)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Thomas Earlie (Seville, Spain) (represented by: D. Bergin, solicitor)

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Dean and M. Ecker, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Mary Earlie Gibbons (Dublin, Ireland) (H. Millar, solicitor)

Re:

Application for annulment of the decision to deduct from the applicant’s pension the amount of maintenance the applicant is obliged to pay to his former wife, that being a decision which, according to the applicant, infringes a judgment of a national court in divorce proceedings and an application for damages in respect of the material and non-material harm allegedly suffered.

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

1.Dismisses the action;

2.Declares that Mr Earlie shall bear his own costs and orders him to pay the costs incurred by the European Parliament;

3.Declares that Ms Earlie Gibbons shall bear her own costs.

(*)

Language of the case: English

OJ C 34, 2.2.2015, p. 52.