Order of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 11 November 2014 —
Bos and Others v Parliament and Council

(Case T‑23/14)

Action for annulment — Reform of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union — Substantial reduction in the number of days of annual leave for officials and other servants serving in a non-member country — Lack of individual concern — Manifest inadmissibility

1.                     Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Identification of the subject-matter of the dispute — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Abstract statement — Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 21, first para., and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see para. 18)

2.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Legislative measure — Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of Officials in relation to annual leave of officials posted to a non-member country — Action of an official based on his capacity as an EU official — Not individually affected — Inadmissibility — No infringement of the right to effective judicial protection (Art. 6(1), third para., TEU; Arts 256 TFEU, 263, fourth para., TFEU, 267 TFEU, 270 TFEU and 277 TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Arts 47 and 52(7); Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 1; Staff Regulations, Art. 91; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1023/2013) (see paras 25, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40)

3.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Legislative measure — Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of Officials in relation to annual leave of officials posted to a non-member country — Action by an official based on his objective capacity as an official in a non-member country — Fact not sufficient to distinguish him in relation to all officials carrying out their duties in a non-member country — Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Staff Regulations, Annex X, Art. 6; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1023/2013) (see paras 42, 43)

4.                     Actions for annulment — Natural and legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Conditions cumulative in nature — Inadmissibility of an action where only one of those conditions absent (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see para. 45)

Re:

ACTION for annulment brought under Article 263 TFEU against point 70 of Article 1 of Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (OJ 2013 L 287, p. 15), in so far as it amends Annex X to Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC), laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (JO 1962, 45, p. 1385).

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Mark Bos, Estelle Kadouch, Siegfried Krahl and Eric Lunel are ordered to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.

3. There is no need to give a ruling on the application for leave to intervene by the European Commission.