Action brought on 4 September 2014 — ZZ v European Commission

(Case F-90/14)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: ZZ (represented by: Hans-Robert Ilting, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Subject-matter and description of the proceedings

Application, first, to set aside the decision not to grant the applicant the child allowance from 1 September 2013 because his child is no longer receives ‘educational or vocational training’ within the meaning of Article 2 of Annex VII of the Staff Regulations of officials and, second, to oblige his employer to continue to grant him that allowance and to reimburse him all medical expenses for his daughter retroactively from 1 September 2013.

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the Commission’s decision, reference HR.D.2/AS/ac/Ares(2014) of 5 June 2014 relating to his complaint, registered on 12 February 2014 with HR.D.2, ‘Appeals and case monitoring’, under reference no. R/227/14;

oblige the appointing authority to recognise his daughter, continuously and retroactively from 1 September 2013, as being a dependent child in education and for this reason to continue to grant the child allowance for his daughter continuously and retroactively from 1 September 2013 and to continue to provide, continuously and retroactively from 1 September 2013, his daughter’s medical expenses.