119The defendant states that, according to the case-law, where the harm in respect of which reparation is sought was caused not by the contested decision but by conduct not entailing a decision, the admissibility of an action for damages is conditional upon an administrative procedure comprising two stages. First, the person concerned must submit a request to the appointing authority for compensation for the harm caused by the conduct not entailing a decision. It is only the express or implied rejection of that request that constitutes an actadversely affecting him against which a complaint may be directed and it is only after the complaint has been expressly or impliedly rejected that an action for damages may be brought before the Court of First Instance (Case T-65/91 White v Commission [1994] ECRSC I-A-9 and II-23, paragraph 137, and the decision at first instance in Ojha v Commission, cited in paragraph 57 above, paragraph 117).
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