Staff case summary

Staff case summary

Summary

Officials – Pensions – Weighting

(Staff Regulations, Art. 82)

The concept of residence within the meaning of Article 82 of the previous version of the Staff Regulations, which provides for the application to pensions of the weighting fixed for the country in which the recipient proves he has established his residence, refers to the place where the former official has actually established his centre of interests, in other words the place in which the person concerned has established, with the intention that it should be of a lasting character, the permanent or habitual centre of his interests and where he is deemed to incur his expenditure. Furthermore, irrespective of the purely quantitative element of the time spent by the person in a particular country, residence implies not only the actual fact of living in a given place, but also the intention of thereby achieving the continuity which stems from a stable way of life and from the course of normal social relations . This concept of residence is peculiar to the Community civil service and does not necessarily coincide with national meanings of the term.

(see paras 69, 86)

See:

T‑124/01 and T‑320/01 Del Vaglio v Commission [2003] ECR-SC I‑A‑157 and II‑767, paras 70 and the case-law cited therein, 71 and the case-law cited therein, and 72; judgment of 12 September 2005 in T-320/04 Dionyssopoulou v Council , not published in the ECR, para. 39; T-416/04 Kontouli v Council [2006] ECR-SC I‑A‑2‑181 and II‑A‑2‑897, para. 71