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Document 62016TJ0538

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 June 2022.
Dora Schaffrin v European Commission.
Civil service – Officials – 2014 reform of the Staff Regulations – Reimbursement of annual travel expenses – Place of origin located in a third country – Flat-rate payment calculated on the basis of the distance separating the place of employment from the capital of the Member State of which the official is a national.
Case T-538/16.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2022:365

 Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 June 2022 –
Schaffrin v Commission

(Case T‑538/16)

(Civil service – Officials – 2014 reform of the Staff Regulations – Reimbursement of annual travel expenses – Place of origin located in a third country – Flat-rate payment calculated on the basis of the distance separating the place of employment from the capital of the Member State of which the official is a national)

Officials – Reimbursement of expenses – Annual travel expenses – Reform of the Staff Regulations – Discretion of the EU legislature – Application of different methods of calculation to officials with their place of origin within the European Union and those with a place of origin outside the European Union – Whether permissible – No infringement of the principles of legal certainty, equal treatment and proportionality

(Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 20; Staff Regulations of Officials, as amended by Regulation No 1023/2013, Annex VII, Art. 8)

(see paras 31-35, 39, 41-60)

Operative part

The Court:

1. 

Dismisses the action;

2. 

Orders Dora Schaffrin to bear her own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;

3. 

Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs.

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