Notice for the OJ

 

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 July 2004 in Case T-384/02: Fernando Valenzuela Marzo v Commission of the European Communities ¹

(Officials - Pay - Installation allowance - Article 9(3) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations - Period of one year)

    (Language of the case: French)

In Case T-384/02: Fernando Valenzuela Marzo, an official of the Commission of the European Communities, residing at Brussels (Belgium), represented by M.-A. Lucas, lawyer, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Curral and V. Joris, with an address for service in Luxembourg) ( application for, first, annulment of the Commission's decisions of 16 November 2001 and 13 February 2002, refusing the applicant the second half of the installation allowance on the ground that his family did not settle at his place of employment within the period laid down in the regulations of one year from his taking up his post and, second, an order that the Commission pay him the second half of the installation allowance with interest thereon at an annual rate of 8% ( the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber), composed of J. Azizi, President, M. Jaeger and F. Dehousse, Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 15 July 2004, in which it:

1.    Dismisses the action;

2.    Orders the parties to pay their own costs.

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¹ - OJ C 55 of 8.3.2003.