Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2014:1057
Date: 2014-12-11
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Appeals Chamber
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Procedure: Appeal - unfounded;Staff cases;Action for damages

Summary Actions brought by officials — Prior administrative complaint — Rejection decision — No obligation for the administration to substitute grounds for the original decision (Staff Regulations, Art. 90) Where, after considering a complaint by an official, the competent appointing authority considers that the grounds for the original decision which is the subject of that complaint are both well founded and sufficient to respond to the allegations made in the complaint, there is no reason for it to depart from that statement of reasons by substituting another. In those circumstances it may, therefore, reject the complaint, reproducing, in the rejection decision, the same grounds as those given in the original decision, without being criticised for infringing the obligation to provide a statement of reasons or the principle of sound administration. (see para. 32)