Action brought on 3 March 2008 - Klein v Commission

(Case F-32/08)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Marie-Claude Klein (Grasse, France) (represented by: S. Rodrigues and C. Bernard-Glanz, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

The subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Annulment of the decision of the appointing authority of 4 May 2007 refusing to recognise the applicant as the beneficiary of a death grant, death allowance and an orphan pension.

Form of order sought

Annul the decision adopted by the Director of the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements of the European Commission of 4 May 2007;

annul as necessary the decision of the appointing authority rejecting the applicant's complaint;

state to the appointing authority the consequences of the annulment of the contested decisions and, in particular, reconsider the applicant's right to death allowance, a death grant and an orphan pension (calculated on the basis of the pension for a first orphan);

order the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs.

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