37As regards material damage, the applicants have not challenged the figures put forward by the Commission, according to which, during the period in question, the cost of living in Karlsruhe was lower overall than in Bonn. It follows that through the application to their remuneration of the weighting calculated by reference to the cost of living in Bonn, rather than a specific weighting for Karlsruhe, the applicants obtained a slight financial advantage. They have therefore not suffered any material damage. As regards non-material damage, it is clear from paragraphs 77 to 81 of the contested judgment that the Court of First Instance did not at any time state, either expressly or by implication, that only an exclusively financial disadvantage could give rise to compensatory payments. It merely indicated that, in order to satisfy the requirements of Article 44(1 )(c) of its Rules of Procedure, an application seeking compensation for damage caused by a Community institution must contain information making it possible to identify, in particular, the nature and extent of the damage. Since the applicants did not produce such information, the Court of First Instance was right in holding that, since the applicants' action for compensation did not satisfy the conditions imposed by that provision of its Rules of Procedure, the claims for compensation based on alleged non-material damage were inadmissible.
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