Notice for the OJ

 

Action brought on 21 May 2003 by Sanni Olesen against the Commission of the European Communities

    (Case T-190/03)

    Language of the Case: French

An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 21 May 2003 by Sanni Olesen, resident in Brussels, represented by Sébastien Orlandi, Albert Coolen, Jean-Noël Louis and Etienne Marchal, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg.

The applicant claims that the Court should:

(annul the Commission's decision of 19 April 2002 not to grant her an expatriation allowance from her entry into service on 3 March 2002;

(order the Commission to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The applicant in this case, a Grade A official with the Commission, opposes the Commission's decision not to grant her an expatriation allowance because she worked in Belgium from 15 June 1995. Since that date she has lived in Belgium and has had her main occupation there, as a freelance lecturer for the Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture and as representative in Brussels of the town of Odense (ODENSE KOMMUNE ( Denmark).

In support of her claims, the applicant pleads breach of Article 4(1)(a) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations. She submits in this connection that:

(the status of freelance lecturer, characterised by a direct legal link between her and the institution, corresponds to a situation arising from work done for an international organisation;

(under their charters of autonomy, Danish towns may open representations abroad and consequently the applicant's occupation as representative of the town of Odense must be regarded as "work done for another State", namely the Kingdom of Denmark.

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