Summary
Procedure – Allocation of jurisdiction among the various Community Courts
(Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 8(3); Staff Regulations of Officials, Art. 72)
Where the Civil Service Tribunal is seised of a case against the refusal to grant an official the 100% reimbursement of medical expenses to which he claims he is entitled on account of the mental illness from which he claims he is suffering, it is required, under the second paragraph of Article 8(3) of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice, to decline jurisdiction in favour of the Court of First Instance where there are other cases pending before the Court of First Instance between the same parties, founded on the same legal basis and also concerning the right to 100% reimbursement of medical expenses. Those various cases constitute a single dispute and it is consistent with the sound administration of justice, which the provisions of Article 8(3) of Annex I to the Statute of the Court of Justice seek to ensure, to confer on one court only the power to determine the whole of that dispute.
(see paras 8-16)