Order of the Vice-President of the General Court of 15 February 2019 — Aresu v Commission

(Case T-524/16 R)

(Interim measures - Civil Service - Officials - Reform of the Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014 - Reduced number of days of annual leave - Replacement of travelling time by home leave - Application for interim measures - No urgency)

(2019/C 131/52)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Antonio Aresu (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: M. Velardo, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Gattinara and F. Simonetti, agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: E. Taneva and M. Ecker, acting as Agents); and Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and R. Meyer, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application based on Articles 278 and 279 TFEU seeking, first, the suspension of operation of the decision reducing the number of the applicant’s additional leave days from five to two and a half days, on the basis of Article 7 of Annex V to the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, as amended by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 (OJ 2013 L 287, p. 15), and, secondly, the adoption of interim measures to enable the applicant to continue to benefit, on a provisional basis, from the same number of additional leave days that he enjoyed, in the form of travelling time, before 1 January 2014, with retroactive effect from 1 January 2014 until the decision in the main proceedings is delivered or, if prior to the delivery of that decision, until the retirement date of the applicant.

Operative part of the order

1.	The application for interim measures is dismissed.

2.	The costs are reserved.