Notice for the OJ

 

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 September 2002 in Case T-29/01: Carlos Puente Martín v Commission of the European Communities ¹

(Officials ( Reinstatement ( Installation allowance ( Further payment of invalidity pension ( Resettlement allowance ( Conditions)

    (Language of the case: Spanish)

In Case T-29/01: Carlos Puente Martín, an official of the Commission of the European Communities, residing in Madrid, represented by O. González Correas, lawyer, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Currall, J. Rivas-Andrés and J. Gutiérrez Gisbert) - application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 22 February 2000 refusing to grant to the applicant the full installation allowance and resettlement allowance following his installation in Brussels and resettlement in Madrid -the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of M. Vilaras, President, V. Tiili and P. Mengozzi, Judges; Registrar: J. Palacio González, Administrator, gave a judgment on 18 September 2002, in which it:

1.Held that there was no need to adjudicate on the claim that the Court of First Instance should accept Spanish as the language of the case;

2.Annulled the Commission's decision of 22 February 2000 to the extent that it refused to grant the applicant the full installation allowance provided for in Article 5(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations and the full resettlement allowance provided for in Article 6(1) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations;

3.Ordered the Commission to pay the applicant the allowances, plus default interest from the respective dates on which it became due on those allowances in accordance with Annex VII to the Staff Regulations to the date of payment, after deduction of the sums already paid to the applicant as installation allowance; the annual rate of that default interest is to be calculated on the basis of the rate fixed by the Governing Council of the European Central Bank for principal refinancing operations and applicable during the period in question, plus two points;

4.Dismissed the remainder of the application;

5.Ordered the Commission to pay the costs.

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¹ - OJ No C 118 of 21 April 2001.