1. 

Action for annulment – Review of legality – Criteria – Account taken only of elements of fact and law existing at the date on which the contested measure was adopted

(Art. 263 TFEU)

(see para. 18)

2. 

Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope – Decision of the Parliament ordering the recovery of a sum wrongfully paid by way of parliamentary assistance

(Art. 296, second para., TFEU)

(see para. 23)

3. 

European Parliament – Members – Payment of expenses and allowances – Parliamentary assistance allowances – Bearing of costs not connected to exercise of the Parliamentary mandate – Not included

(Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament concerning implementing measures for the Statute of Members of the European Parliament, Art. 33(2), first sentence)

(see para. 66)

4. 

European Parliament – Members – Payment of expenses and allowances – Parliamentary assistance allowances – Check relating to the use of parliamentary assistance costs – Burden of proof

(Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament concerning implementing measures for the Statute of Members of the European Parliament, Art. 33(2), second sentence)

(see paras 67-70)

5. 

European Parliament – Members – Payment of expenses and allowances – Recovery of sums unduly paid – Amount to be recovered – Parliament’s lack of discretion – Claim by the Member concerned of infringement of the principle of proportionality – Rejection

(Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament concerning implementing measures for the Statute of Members of the European Parliament, Art. 68(1), first sentence)

(see paras 80-83)

1. 

Dismisses the action;

2. 

Orders Mr Jean-Luc Bennahmias to bear his own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament.