Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) of 29 September 2011 – Bowles, Larue and Whitehead v ECB
(Case F-114/10) 1
(Staff case – Staff of the ECB – General adjustment to salaries – Method of calculation – Provisional data – Economic and financial crisis – Special circumstances – Act adversely affecting an official – Pay slip – Provisional act)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Carlos Bowles, Emmanuel Larue and Sarah Whitehead (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: L. Levi and M. Vandenbussche, lawyers)
Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: E. Carlini and M. López Torres, Agents, and by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer)
Re:
Application for annulment of the applicants’ salary slips for January 2010 and the following months in so far as they apply a salary increase of 2% as a result of the 2010 salary adjustment procedure and compensation for the material loss suffered by the applicants
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
Annuls the decisions of the European Central Bank to increase by 2% the remuneration of C. Bowles, E. Larue and S. Whitehead from 1 January 2010, as stated on their salary slips for January 2010 and the following months;
Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
Orders the European Central Bank to pay the costs.
____________1 OJ C 55, 19.2.2011, p. 37.