Action brought on 15 December 2023 – AS and Others v EEAS

(Case T-1160/23)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: AS and 28 other applicants (represented by: A. Tymen, lawyer)

Defendant: European External Action Service

Form of order sought

The applicants claim that the Court should:

annul the decision of 21 December 2022 of the Director-General for Resource Management of the EEAS, bearing reference ADMIN(2022)76, fixing the allowance for living conditions for 2023 for Jordan at 10%;

annul the decision of 7 September 2023 of the Secretary-General of the EEAS, bearing reference Ares(2023)6075736, rejecting the applicants’ complaint;

order the defendant to pay all the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicants rely on two pleas in law:

First plea in law, alleging the unlawfulness of the procedure followed in the process for fixing the allowance for living conditions for the year 2023, infringements of the guidelines establishing the methodology to fix the living conditions allowances and the granting of rest leave and infringement of the duty to have regard for the welfare of officials.

Second plea in law, alleging a manifest error of assessment, on the ground that the parameters ‘security’, ‘health and hospital environment’, ‘climate’, ‘degree of isolation’ and ‘other local living conditions’ were under-evaluated when awarding the score referred to in Article 1(2) of the aforementioned guidelines.

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