31.8.2013
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 252/46
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)
2013/C 252/79
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:
1.
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;
2.
Dismisses the remainder of the action;
3.
Orders the European Economic and Social Committee to bear its own costs and to pay half of the costs incurred by Mr Achab;
4.
Orders Mr Achab to bear half of his own costs.
(1) OJ C 133, 5.5.2012, p. 30.
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