43As the Court of Justice has consistently held, the periodical report constitutes an indispensable criterion of assessment each time the official's career is taken into consideration by the administration. A promotion procedure is tainted with illegality in so far as the appointing authority has not been able to consider the comparative merits of the candidates because there has been a substantial delay on the part of the administration in drawing up the periodical reports of one or more of them (see, most recently, the judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-68/91 P Moritz v Commission [1992] ECR I-6849, paragraph 16).
Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. Reuse authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU.