Early retirement - Economic and Social Committee

Opinion of 1 April 2009 on the notification for prior checking on the annual exercise for early retirement without reduction of pension rights (Case 2008-719)

The purpose of the processing operation is to implement annual exercises for early retirement without reduction of pension rights in compliance with Article 9 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations and the second and third subparagraphs of Article 39(1) of the CEOS. Implementation is based on Decisions No 271/07 A of 13 June 2007 and No 144/08 A of 4 April 2008 on the possibility of not applying the reduction in pension rights to officials and other servants who leave the service before the age of 63 and request that their retirement pension be paid immediately.

The proposed processing operation would not appear to involve any breach of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001, provided that the European Economic and Social Committee ensures that applicants' family members and dependants whose data might be processed by the EESC have rights of access and rectification and that it reviews the content of the information supplied and the arrangements for supplying it.