Action brought on 17th February 2012 – ZZ v Commission and CEPOL

(Case F-22/12)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: ZZ (represented by: L. Levi, M. Vandenbussche, lawyers)

Defendants: European Commission and European Police College

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

The annulment of the decisions rejecting the applicant’s demand to be granted the dependent child and education allowances for his wife's three children for the period in which they were still living in the Philippines.

Form of order sought

The annulment of the implicit decision of 25th March 2011 and of the explicit decision adopted by PMO on 11th July 2011, confirmed by the decision of 9th November 2011 rejecting the complaint, insofar as they reject the request of the applicant to be granted the dependent child and education allowances for his wife's three children for the period in which they were still living in the Philippines;

as a consequence, the recognition of the applicant's entitlement to the said allowances;

the compensation of the applicant's material prejudice consisting of retroactive payment of the dependent child and education allowances since 1st April 2009, provisionally evaluated at 33.673, 31 euros, with late interest at the European Central Bank key rate plus two percentage points;

the compensation of the applicant's moral prejudice evaluated at 20.000 euros;

the order for the defending parties to pay the costs.