Notice for the OJ

 

    Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber)

    of 9 July 2003

    in Case T-22/01 Petros Efthymiou v Commission of the European Communities ¹

(Officials ( Repayment of mission expenses ( Business class air travel)

    (Language of the case: French)

In Case T-22/01 Petros Efthymiou, an official of the Commission of the European Communities, residing in Luxembourg, represented by J.-N. Louis and V. Peere, avocats, with an address for service in Luxembourg, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C. Berardis-Kayser and H. Tserepa-Lacombe), - application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 24 March 2000 making three "supplementary amendments" to mission expense accounts and charging to the applicant the sums overclaimed and, in addition, a request that the Commission should be ordered to repay to the applicant the amounts deducted from his remuneration by way of sums overclaimed, - the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of V. Tiili, President, and P. Mengozzi and M. Vilaras, Judges; D. Christensen, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 9 July 2003, in which it:

1.Annuls the Commission's decision of 24 March 2003 making three "supplementary amendments" to mission expense accounts and charging to the applicant the sums overclaimed inasmuch as it charges to the applicant, for the mission to the Hague of 12 to 18 August 1999, a sum overclaimed in respect of air travel costs of BEF 1921 instead of BEF 1291;

2.Orders the defendant to repay to the applicant the sum of EUR 15.62 together with interest to run from 25 June 2000, at the rate fixed by the European Central Bank for principal refinancing operations applicable for the period in question, increased by two points;

3.Dismisses the remainder of the application;

4.Orders the defendant to bear its own costs and to pay one-sixth of those incurred by the applicant.

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¹ - OJ No C 79 of 10 March 2001.