JUDGMENT OF 7.7.1964 — CASE 70/63 COLLOTTI v COURT

In Case 70/63,

THE COURT (First Chamber) composed of: A. Trabucchi, President, L. Delvaux (Rapporteur) and W. Strauß, Judges, Advocate-General: M. Lagrange Registrar: H.J. Eversen, Assistant Registrar

gives the following

JUDGMENT

Issues of fact and of law

I — Conclusions of the parties

A. The applicant claims:

B. The defendant contends that the Court should:

II — Statement of facts

III — Submissions and arguments of the parties

A — On admissibility

1. With regard to the principal claim

2. With regard to the alternative claim

(a) Late filing and formal acceptance

(b) Deficiency of particulars in the alternative conclusions and lack of legal interest to act

B — On the merits

1. With regard to the principal claim

(a) The principle of the autonomy of the institutions

(b) Calculation by the applicant of the grade and step

(aa) The terms of paragraph (1) of the sole Article of Annex X

(bb) The work of the Committee of Presidents in 1956 on the Staff Regulations of the ECSC

(c) Paragraph (4) (b) of Annex X to the new Staff Regulations of the ECSC

(d) The material damage alleged by the applicant

2. As to the alternative claim

IV — Procedure

Grounds of judgment

A — Admissibility

B — The substance of the case

1. Criticism of the method adopted by the defendant

2. Criticism of the method adopted by the applicant

3. Method arising from the spirit of the Staff Regulations

C — On the alternative claim

D — Costs