ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL COURT

3 December 2012

Case T‑464/12 P(R)

Luigi Marcuccio

v

European Commission

(Appeal — Order made at first instance in interim proceedings rejecting an application for suspension of operation of the contested decision — Commission’s refusal to reimburse the appellant in respect of sums which he claims were unjustly deducted from his allowance)

Appeal:      against the order of the President of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union of 3 August 2012 in Case F‑57/12 R Marcuccio v Commission [2012] ECR-SC, seeking to have that order set aside.

Held:      The appeal is dismissed. The costs are reserved.

Summary

1.      Appeals — Pleas in law — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the General Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted

(Art. 257, third para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 11(1))

2.      Applications for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Interim measures — Conditions for granting — Urgency — Serious and irreparable damage — Burden of proof — Strictly financial damage

(Arts 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104(2))

3.      Applications for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Conditions for admissibility — Contested decision having exhausted its effects on the date when the application for interim measures was submitted — Inadmissibility

(Art. 278 TFEU)

4.      Procedure — Costs — Jurisdiction of the Court hearing the application for interim relief to make an order as to costs — Exceptional nature — Manifestly unfounded application for interim relief — Included

(Rules of Procedure of the Civil Service Tribunal, Arts 86, 91 and 94(a))

1.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 10, 17)

See:

C‑149/95 P(R) Commission v Atlantic Container Line and Others [1995] ECR I‑2165, paras 17 and 18; C‑233/03 P(R) Linea GIG v Commission [2003] ECR I‑7911, paras 34 to 36; C‑403/04 P and C‑405/04 P Sumitomo Metal Industries and Nippon Steel v Commission [2007] ECR I‑729, para. 39 and the case-law cited therein

T‑248/08 P Doktor v Council [2010] ECR-SC, paras 39 to 43

2.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 14-15, 19)

See:

378/87 R Top Hit Holzvertrieb v Commission [1988] ECR 161, para. 18; C‑213/91 R Abertal and Others v Commission [1991] ECR I‑5109, para. 18; C‑471/00 P(R) Commission v Cambridge Healthcare Supplies [2001] ECR I‑2865, para. 113

T‑163/00 R Carotti v Court of Auditors [2000] ECR-SC I‑A‑133 and II‑607, para. 8; T‑339/00 R Bactria v Commission [2001] ECR II‑1721, para. 94; T‑196/01 R Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis v Commission [2001] ECR II‑3107, para. 32; T‑151/01 R Duales System Deutschland v Commission [2001] ECR II‑3295, para. 187; T‑306/01 R Aden and Others v Council and Commission [2002] ECR II‑2387, para. 94; T‑181/02 R Neue Erba Lautex v Commission [2002] ECR II‑5081, para. 82; judgment of 25 April 2008 in T‑41/08 R Vakakis v Commission, not published in the ECR, para. 52; T‑103/10 P(R) Parliament v U [2010] ECR-SC, para. 35

3.      See the text of the decision.

(see para. 16)

See:

F‑140/11 R BK v Commission [2012] ECR-SC, para. 29

4.      See the text of the decision.

(see paras 21-24)

See:

Judgments of 17 November 2006 in T‑283/06 R Dairo Air Services v Commission, not published in the ECR; 14 July 2008 in T‑254/00 R Hotel Cipriani v Commission, not published in the ECR; 18 October 2010 in T‑55/09 P Marcuccio v Commission, not published in the ECR, para. 59; 12 April 2011 in T‑486/10 R Iberdrola v Commission, not published in the ECR, para. 12; T‑256/10 P Marcuccio v Commission [2011] ECR-SC, para. 77; T‑491/11 P Marcuccio v Commission [2012] ECR-SC, para. 39