22.2.2021

Official Journal of the European Union

C 62/24

(Case T-442/17 RENV) (*)

(Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Articles 18 and 20 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - Plea of illegality - Equal treatment - Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age - Proportionality - Concept of ‘spouse’)

(2021/C 62/28)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: RN (represented by: F. Moyse, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and B. Mongin, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: M. Ecker and E. Taneva, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s decision of 24 September 2014 rejecting the applicant’s request for a survivor's pension.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 24 September 2014 rejecting RN’s request for a survivor’s pension;

2.Orders the Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by RN relating to Case F-104/15 and in the present proceedings on referral;

3.Orders the Commission and RN each to bear their own costs relating to the proceedings in Case T-695/16 P;

4.Orders the European Parliament to bear its own costs relating to Case F-104/15 and the present proceedings on referral.

(*) Language of the case: French.