3.6.2019

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 187/87

(Case T-249/19)

(2019/C 187/94)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Marina Karpeta-Kovalyova (Woluwe Saint Pierre, Belgium) (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul both challenged decisions so that the European Commission reevaluates the applicant’s status and grant her the expatriation allowance, the daily subsistence allowance, the installation allowance, the travel costs on taking up duty and the removal expenses;

—order the defendant to bear its costs as well as the applicant’s costs for the current proceedings.

Pleas in law and main arguments

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

1.First plea in law, alleging a false interpretation of article 4(1) (a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulation concerning the definition of the habitual residence, given that the contested decisions disregard the diplomatic status of the applicant’s spouse covering the most of the critical period of 5 years ending six months before she entered the service and because they took into account interim contracts the applicant has had, while her family returned back to their home country.

2.Second plea in law, alleging a manifest error of assessment by the contested decisions since they don’t take into account facts that undeniably and beyond any assessment prove the removal of the entire household from Brussels back to the home country of the applicant, namely on the basis of the unsubstantiated assumptions.