Judgment No. 2003

• Organization: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol)
• Date: 31.01.2001
• Original: French
• Judges: Gentot, Carroll, Hugessen
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINTS ARE DISMISSED.

Consideration 6

Extract:

The complainants did not challenge the initial decisions denying them an installation grant and therefore "those decisions became final and the complainants were barred from challenging them by filling up application forms years later and claiming the quashing of the decisions refusing them by implication the allowance for which their assignment to Maastricht made them eligible. The Joint Committee for Disputes was right to cite the principle of legal certainty which must govern relations between an organisation and its staff' and to note that it was not possible to [exempt] the persons concerned from the time bar, which the Tribunal is in any event bound to apply since it is mandatory'."

Keywords

decision; effective date; time limit; mandatory time limit; exception; time bar; organisation's duties; staff member's interest; iloat statute; binding character