1. 

European Parliament — Members — Payment of expenses and allowances — Establishment of undue payment — Recovery of sums unduly paid — Power of the Secretary-General of the Parliament

(Decision of the Bureau of the Parliament concerning implementing measures for the Statute for Members of the European Parliament, Art. 68(1); Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, Art. 25(3))

(see paras 41, 42)

2. 

Appeal — Pleas in law — Plea against a ground of the judgment not necessary to support the operative part — Invalid plea in law

(see para. 55)

3. 

EU law — Principles — Rights of defence — Scope — Obligation to enable the person concerned effectively to put forward his point of view on the evidence adduced against him in the measure to be adopted

(see para. 59)

4. 

EU law — Principles — Rights of defence — Right to be heard — Scope — Obligation to give the person concerned the opportunity to express himself orally — No such obligation

(see para. 60)

5. 

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 Parliament concerning implementing measures for the Statute for Members of the European Parliament, Art. 33(1))

(see paras 63, 88, 90, 97, 102)

6. 

EU law — Principles — Equal treatment — Need to comply with the principle of legality — Impossible to rely on an unlawful act committed in favour of a third party

(see para. 74)

7. 

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

(see paras 78, 122)

8. 

Appeal — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted

(Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)

(see para. 109)

9. 

Appeal — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted — Ground of appeal alleging distortion of the clear sense of the evidence — Need to indicate precisely the evidence alleged to have been distorted and show the errors of appraisal which led to that distortion

(Art. 256(1), second para., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d))

(see para. 110)

1. 

The appeal is dismissed as being, in part, manifestly inadmissible and, in part, manifestly unfounded.

2. 

Mr Bruno Gollnisch is ordered to pay the costs.