Order of the Civil Service Tribunal (Single Judge) of 18 June 2013 – Biwer and Others v Commission
(Case F-115/10) 1
(Civil Service – Remuneration – Family allowances – Education allowance – Conditions for grant – Deduction of an allowance of the same type received from another source – Action manifestly unfounded)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicants: Jacques Biwer and Others (Bascharage, Luxembourg) (represented by: F. Frabetti, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Currall and D. Martin, acting as Agents)
Re:
Action for annulment of the Commission decision to consider certain financial assistance from a Member State to students in higher education to be an allowance of the same nature as family allowances and to deduct this financial assistance from the education allowance granted to officials who are parents of those students.
Operative part of the order
1. The action of Mr Biwer and the other five applicants whose names appear in the annex is dismissed as manifestly unfounded in law.
2. Mr Biwer and the other five applicants whose names appear in the annex shall bear their own costs and shall pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
____________1 OJ C 30, 29.1.2011, p. 66.