Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/4479

18.8.2025

(Case T-416/25)

(C/2025/4479)

Language of the case: Polish

Parties

Applicant: Robert Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Wrocław, Poland) (represented by: H. Kubik, lawyer)

Defendant: European Parliament

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul the decision of 25 April 2025 of the Secretary-General of the European Parliament to recover from the applicant undue payments in respect of the employment contract of an accredited parliamentary assistant pursuant to Article 72(1) of the Implementing Measures for the Statute for Members; (1)

—annul debit note No 7050000735 linked to the aforementioned contested decision;

—order the European Parliament to pay to the applicant all sums unduly withheld, plus monetary revaluation and statutory interest from the date of the withholding until the date of payment of the balance;

—order the European Parliament to pay the applicant’s costs, including the costs of legal representation.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on five pleas in law.

1.First plea in law, alleging infringement by the Secretary General of the European Parliament of the principle of legal certainty, including the right to an impartial and fair hearing within a reasonable time, as expressed in Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

2.Second plea in law, alleging that the Secretary General of the European Parliament infringed Article 41(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in so far as the European Parliament failed to secure and produce the documents in its possession concerning the performance of the assistant's work.

3.Third plea in law, alleging that the Secretary-General misinterpreted the definition of the work of a parliamentary assistant.

4.Fourth plea in law, alleging that the Secretary-General misinterpreted the requirement that an assistant must reside at the seat of the European Parliament.

5.Fifth plea in law, in the alternative, in the event that the previous four pleas are not upheld, alleging infringement of the principle of proportionality in requiring the applicant to repay the entire amount of the remuneration paid to the parliamentary assistant.

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Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 19 May and 9 July 2008 concerning implementing measures for the Statute of Members of the European Parliament (OJ 2009 C 159, p. 1).

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4479/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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