Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 5 November 2013 – De Nicola v EIB

(Case F-63/12) ¹

(Civil Service – Compliance with a judgment – Costs – Reimbursement of costs – Reimbursement of the sum paid by way of recoverable costs following a judgment annulling in part the judgment by which the applicant was ordered to pay those costs)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Carlo de Nicola (Strassen, Luxembourg) (represented by: L. Isola, lawyer)

Defendant: European Investment Bank (represented by: G. Nuvoli and F. Martin, Agents, A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)

Re:

Application to annul the letters by which the defendant refuses to reimburse, following the judgment of the General Court of the European Union in Case T-37/10 P De Nicola v EIB, which annulled in part the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal in Case F-55/08 De Nicola v EIB, the EUR 6000 which the applicant had paid to the defendant by way of recoverable costs following the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal in Case F-55/08 DEP.

Operative part of the judgment

The Tribunal:

Annuls the decisions of 4 and 25 May 2012 of the European Investment Bank;

Orders the European Investment bank to pay Mr De Nicola the sum of EUR 6 000, with default interest as from 29 April 2012. The default interest rate must be calculated on the basis of the rate set by the European Central Bank for its principal refinancing operations applicable over the period concerned, increased by two points;

Dismisses the remainder of the application;

Orders the European Investment Bank to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Mr De Nicola.

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¹ OJ 2012 C 311, p. 16.