15First, the Commission considers that the two claims for annulment are inadmissible on the ground that the applicant did not lodge his complaint within the three-month period laid down in Article 90(2) of the Staff Regulations. It maintains that the complaint, which concerned defamatory remarks allegedly made about the applicant by various Commission officials in December 1990 and January 1991, was lodged on 20 June 1991, after the three-month period had expired. Secondly, the Commission considers that the defamatory remarks complained of are not capable of directly affecting the applicant's legal situation (judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 32/68Grasselli v Commission [1969] ECR 505). Thirdly, the Commission considers that the claims are inadmissible in so far as the applicant, who has been retired since 30 November 1991, no longer has any personal interest in the decisions which he requests the Court to annul (judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases 81/74 to 88/74 Marenco v Commission [1975] ECR 1247, at p. 1255; judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-20/89Moritz v Commission [1990] ECR II-769, at p. 775).