Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2017 — Bodson and Others v EIB
(Joined Cases T-504/16 and T-505/16) 1
(Civil service — EIB staff — Remuneration — Annual adjustment of the scale of basic salaries — Calculation method — Economic and financial crisis)
Language of the cases: French
Parties
Applicants: Jean-Pierre Bodson (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and the 485 other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (Case T-504/16); and Esther Badiola (Luxembourg) and the 15 other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (Case T-505/16) (represented by: L. Levi, lawyer)
Defendant: European Investment Bank (EIB) (represented by: initially, T. Gilliams and G. Nuvoli, and subsequently G. Faedo and T. Gilliams, acting as Agents, and A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)
Re:
Application based on Article 270 TFEU seeking, first, the annulment of the decisions, contained in the salary statements for February 2013 and the subsequent months, applying to the applicants the decision of the EIB Board of Directors of 18 December 2012, the decision of the EIB Management Committee of 29 January 2013, the article published online on 5 February 2013 and the information note of 15 February 2013 informing staff of the adoption of those two decisions and, secondly, an order requiring the EIB to pay to the applicants a sum corresponding to the difference between the amount of remuneration paid pursuant to those decisions and the amount of the remuneration due under the scheme resulting from the decision of the EIB Board of Directors of 22 September 2009, together with damages to compensate for the harm allegedly suffered by the applicants by reason of their loss of purchasing power and uncertainty about the changes made to their remuneration.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decisions of the European Investment Bank (EIB) applying the decision of the EIB Board of Directors of 18 December 2012 and the decision of the EIB Management Committee of 29 January 2013 contained in the salary statements for February 2013 and the subsequent months of Mr Jean-Pierre Bodson and the other members of the EIB staff whose names are listed in the annex in Case T-504/16, on the one hand, and of Mrs Esther Badiola and the other members of the EIB staff whose names are listed in the annex in Case T-505/16, on the other hand;
Dismisses the actions as to the remainder;
Orders the EIB to pay the costs.
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1 OJ C 207, 20.7.2013 (case initially registered before the European Union Civil Service Tribunal under number F-41/13 and transferred to the General Court of the European Union on 1.9.2016).