Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (Third Chamber) of 26 June 2013 – Achab v EESC
(Case F-21/12) 1
(Civil Service – Officials – Remuneration – Expatriation allowance – Condition laid down in Article 4(1)(a) and (b) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations – Recovery of sums unduly paid)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Mohammed Achab (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: N. Lhoest, lawyer)
Defendant: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) (represented by: M. Arsène and G. Boudot, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the decision withdrawing the award of expatriation allowance to the applicant and seeking retroactively to recover that allowance.
Operative part of the judgment
The Tribunal:
Annuls the decision of the European Economic and Social Committee of 9 June 2011 in so far as it orders the recovery of the expatriation allowance paid to Mr Achab from 1 July 2010;
Dismisses the remainder of the action;
Orders the European Economic and Social Committee to bear its own costs and to pay half of the costs incurred by Mr Achab;
Orders Mr Achab to bear half of his own costs.
____________1 OJ C 133, 5/5/12, p. 30.