Judgment_paragraph 35 · Augusto Brazzelli Lualdi and Others v European Commission (T-17/89, T-21/89, T-25/89)

35As regards the applicants' claim to be awarded interest in compensation for the damage which they claim to have suffered by reason of the loss of purchasing power of the arrears of remuneration paid to them pursuant to Regulation No 3294/88, the Court would first point out that ‘a dispute between an official and the institution to which he is answerable... is pursued, where it originates in the relationship of employment between the person concerned and the institution, under Article 179 of the EEC Treaty and Articles 90 and 91 of the Staff Regulations’ (judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 9/75 Meyer-Burckhardt v Commission [1975] ECR 1171, at p. 1181). This Court has consistently held that, in order for the applicants to be able to claim an award of interest by way of compensation, they must demonstrate a fault committed by the institution, the unquestionable existence of quantifiable damage and a causal link between the fault and the alleged damage (judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-20/89 Moritz v Commission [1990] ECR II-769).

Augusto Brazzelli Lualdi and Others v European Commission (T-17/89, T-21/89, T-25/89)

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