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Maria Alvarez y Bejarano and Others v European Commission (C-517/19 P, C-518/19 P)
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Maria Alvarez y Bejarano and Others v European Commission (C-517/19 P, C-518/19 P)

law://eu/cjeu/2019/c-517-19/para_52@2026-11-12

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25 Mar 2021Reading

52That principle requires, according to settled case-law, that comparable situations must not be treated differently and that different situations must not be treated in the same way unless such treatment is objectively justified (judgments of 17 July 2008, Campoli v Commission, C‑71/07 P, EU:C:2008:424, paragraph 50; of 19 December 2019, HK v Commission, C‑460/18 P, EU:C:2019:1119, paragraph 66; and of 8 September 2020, Commission and Council v Carreras Sequeros and Others, C‑119/19 P and C‑126/19 P, EU:C:2020:676, paragraph 137).

Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.

Key facts

Court: Court of Justice · Third Chamber
Cases: C-517/19 P, C-518/19 P · ECLI:EU:C:2021:240
Decided: 25 Mar 2021
Procedure: Appeal
Applicants: María Álvarez y Bejarano; Ana-Maria Enescu and 22 more
Lucian Micu; Angelica Livia Salanta; Svetla Shulga; Soldimar Urena de Poznanski; Angela Vakalis; Luz Anamaria Chu; Marli Bertolete; María Castro Capcha; Hassan Orfe El; Evelyne Vandevoorde; Jakov Ardalic; Liliana Bicanova; Monica Brunetto; Claudia Istoc; Sylvie Jamet; Despina Kanellou; Christian Stouraitis; Abdelhamid Azbair; Abdel Bouzanih; Bob Kitenge Ya Musenga; El Miloud Sadiki; Cam Tran Thi
Defendants: European Commission; Council of the European Union
Rapporteur: L.S. Rossi
Advocate General: P. Pikamäe
Bench: 5 judges
A. Prechal, K. Lenaerts, N. Wahl, F. Biltgen, L.S. Rossi
Language: French
Official: CURIA · EUR-Lex 62019CJ0517

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Staff Regulations of Officials

Judgment of 25 Mar 2021

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Cited by 20: FV v European Commission (T-533/24); DB and Others v European Parliament (T-152/24); CR v European Commission (T-131/24); UV and Others v European Commission (T-253/24); ZR v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-634/22); PV v European Commission (T-78/21); Vasile Dumitrescu and Others v European Commission and Court of Justice of the European Union (C-567/22 P)5 provisions; QN v European Commission (T-531/21); Xavier James Hatherly v European Union Agency for Asylum (T-40/23); QB v European Commission (C-88/22 P); OP v European Parliament (T-143/22); Alexander Chambers and Others v European Commission (T-177/22); Colin Brown v European Commission (C-675/20 P)2 provisions; European Commission and Council of the European Union v VW and Others (C-116/21 P); Dora Schaffrin v European Commission (T-538/16); YV and Others v European Commission (T-533/16); YT and YU v European Commission (T-532/16); Vasile Dumitrescu and Guido Schwarz v European Commission (T-531/16); YY and ZA v Court of Justice of the European Union (T-545/16); OE v VY (C-522/20)
Cites 22: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (consolidated 2016); Czech Republic v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-482/17); Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission (Staff Regulations of Officials); European Commission and Council of the European Union v Francisco Carreras Sequeros and Others (C-119/19 P, C-126/19 P)2 provisions; Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013; Claudia Gualtieri v European Commission (C-485/08); René Hochstrass v Court of Justice of the European Union (147/79); HK v European Commission (C-460/18 P)2 provisions; Guido Strack v European Commission (C-237/06); Vincent Piessevaux v Council of the European Union (C-454/17); Jakov Ardalic and Others v Council of the European Union (T-523/16); Maria Alvarez y Bejarano and Others v European Commission (T-516/16); Pilar Angé Serrano and Others v European Parliament (C-496/08); Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2016/1192; Herta Adam v European Commission (C-211/06); Isabel Clara Centeno Mediavilla and Others v European Commission (C-443/07); Olivier Chassagne v European Commission (F-43/05); Judgment (C-27/15); Wanda Ferrario and Others v European Commission (152/81, 158/81, 162/81, 166/81, 170/81, 173/81, 175/81, 177/81, 179/81, 182/81, 186/81); Franco Campoli v European Commission (C-71/07); Judgment (C-13/15); Judgment (C-100/14)