Action brought on 24 September 2010 - Adriaens and Others v Commission

(Case F-87/10)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Stéphane Adriaens (Evere, Belgium) and Others (represented by: Casado García-Hirschfeld, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Annulment of the defendant's decision, contained in the applicants' pay slips, to limit their salary adjustment, with effect from July 2009, to an increase of 1.85 % in the context of the annual adjustment of remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants on the basis of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1296/2009 of 23 December 2009.

Form of order sought

Annul the contested decision in so far as it sets the rate of salary adjustment at 1.85 %, applying Regulation No 1296/2009, adjusting with effect from 1 July 2009 the remuneration and pensions of officials and other servants and the correction coefficients applied thereto;

Grant to the applicants backdated interest, calculated on the basis of the rate fixed by the European Central Bank, payable on the total sums corresponding to the difference between the salary specified in the pay slips dating from January 2010 and the adjusted pay slips for the period from July to December 2009 and the salary to which they would have been entitled, until the date of the late adjustment of those salaries:

Order the European Commission to pay the costs.

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