RN v EUIPO (Civil service - Officials - EUIPO staff - Remuneration – Family allowances - Judgment)

(Civil service - Officials - EUIPO staff - Remuneration – Family allowances - Payment of allowances to a third person in the name and on behalf of the official - Decision no longer to pay certain allowances to a third person in the name and on behalf of the official)

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by A. Lukošiūtė, acting as Agent,

composed of J. Svenningsen, President, C. Mac Eochaidh (Rapporteur) and J. Martín y Pérez de Nanclares, Judges,

having regard to the fact that no request for a hearing was submitted by the parties within three weeks after service of notification of the close of the written part of the procedure, and having decided to rule on the action without an oral part of the procedure, pursuant to Article 106(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court,

By his action based on Article 270 TFEU, the applicant, RN, seeks annulment of the decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 4 July 2022 in so far as it rejected, first, the application for payment of the education allowance for September 2021 and for the period from 1 to 7 October 2021 and, secondly, recognition of the applicant’s right to receive, from 8 October 2021, half of one third of the household allowance, half of the dependent child allowance and half of the education allowance (‘the contested decision’).