Notices for publication in the OJ nº T-319/19 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, July 12, 2019

• Resolution Date: July 12, 2019
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-319/19

Action brought on 24 May 2019 - Gollnisch v Parliament

(Case T-319/19)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Bruno Gollnisch (Villiers-le-Mahieu, France) (represented by B. Bonnefoy-Claudet, lawyer)

Defendant: European Parliament

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the European Parliament Bureau Decision of 10 December 2018, together with the decision of 26 March 2019 of the President of the European Parliament rejecting the internal appeal brought before him against that decision;

declare invalid all the acts, modifications, notifications, decisions and deductions resulting from that decision;

award the applicant the sum of EUR 6 500 for the costs incurred in preparing the present action;

order the European Parliament to pay the entirety of the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on six pleas in law.

1. First plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 27 of the Statute for Members. That provision prohibits the Bureau from prejudicing acquired rights or future entitlements of parliamentarians.

2. Second plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 76(3) of the Implementing measures for the Statute for Members. According to the applicant, the abovementioned Article 27 of the Statute for Members has the effect of guaranteeing the integrity of the provisions of the Implementing measures for the Statute for Members in relation to the pension fund, thereby preventing any change to their structure.

3. Third plea in law, alleging infringement of Article 223(2) TEU and incompetence on the part of the Bureau, in so far as it introduced a tax on the payment of the pensions of former Members which it was not...