Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2011 - Purvis v Parliament
(Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament - Additional pension scheme - Refusal to grant a voluntary additional pension in part in the form of a lump sum - Plea of illegality - Acquired rights - Legitimate expectations - Proportionality)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: John Robert Purvis (Saint Andrews, United Kingdom) (represented by: S. Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and É. Marchal, lawyers)
Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: initially, H. Krück, A. Pospíšilová Padowska and G. Corstens and subsequently, N. Lorenz, A. Pospíšilová Padowska and G. Corstens, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of the European Parliament's decision of 7 August 2009, which refused to grant the applicant his voluntary additional pension in part in the form of a lump sum
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
dismisses the action;
orders John Robert Purvis to pay the costs.
____________1 - OJ C 11, 16.1.2010.