Action brought on 19 March 2012 – ZZ v Court of Auditors

(Case F-39/12)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: ZZ (represented by: D. Abreu Caldas, S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers)

Defendant: European Court of Auditors

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Annulment of the decision of the Court of Auditors rejecting an application seeking acknowledgment of unlawful conduct which is alleged to have caused the applicant to suffer material and non-material damage.

Form of order sought

Annul the decision rejecting the complaint of 7 December 2011 brought against the decision by the head of the Court of Auditors rejecting ZZ’s application seeking acknowledgment of unlawful conduct which has caused him to suffer damage and has given rise to the non-contractual liability of the European Union;

order the Court of Auditors to pay compensation for the purposes of making good the non-material damage suffered in the amount of EUR 50 000 and the material damage suffered in the amount of, on the one hand, the difference between the amount of remuneration to which the applicant would have been entitled if he had had an average career progression and his current grade and, on the other hand, the difference between the amount of remuneration to which he would have been entitled if he had continued his career until the statutory retirement age and his current pension;

order the Court of Auditors to pay the costs.