Judgment_paragraph 33 · Cornelis Volger v European Parliament (T-52/90)

33The Parliament, for its part, maintains that the decision rejecting the applicant's candidature was communicated to him properly and promptly by means of the standard form, used for years for internal procedures for filling vacant posts. As to the reasons for that decision, the Parliament acknowledges that inadvertently the abovementioned form suggested a link between the rejection of the applicant's candidature and the decision to organize Open Competition No PE/49/A which, it stresses, was an independent matter and was intended to provide a reserve list of Dutch-speaking administrators in all sectors of the institution. However, that error did not vitiate the decision being challenged since, as the Court has consistently held, ‘Article 25 does not require the appointing authority to give reasons for a decision assigning an official to a new post, either to the official appointed, who cannot be adversely affected by the decision, or to unsuccessful candidates, who might be harmed by such a statement of reasons’ (judgments in Case 233/85 Bonino v Commission [1987] ECR 739, at paragraph 4, and Case 104/88 Brus v Commission [1989] ECR 1873, summaiy publication).