Action brought on 10 August 2009 - E v Parliament
(Case T-326/09)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: E (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and E. Marchal, lawyers)
Defendant: European Parliament
Form of order sought
annul the decision adopted by the Bureau of the Parliament of 9 March and 3 April 2009 amending the Additional Voluntary Pension Scheme for Members of the European Parliament;
order the Parliament to pay the costs.
Pleas in law and main arguments
By the present action, the applicant seeks annulment of the decisions of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 9 March and 3 April 2009 amending the rules on the Additional (Voluntary) Pension Scheme in Annex VIII of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament. The amendments essentially concern the withdrawal of the possibility to take early retirement from age 50 and the possibility to receive the pension as a lump sum, and the raising of the retirement age from 60 to 63 years.
The pleas in law and main arguments invoked by the applicant are, in essence, identical or similar to those invoked in the context of Case T-219/09
Balfe and Others v
Parliament 1.