127The defendant contends that, as an institution, the Parliament answers only for the acts carried out by its servants in the performance of their duties or for acts directly imputable to the institution itself. In the present case, the alleged conduct not entailing a decision is imputed to certain Members of the European Parliament and not to its servants and, accordingly, is not binding on the institution. The defendant refers, in that regard, to the principle established by the Court of Justice that no provision of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament empowers a political group to act on behalf of the Parliament with regard to third parties and that, moreover, there is no rule of Community law from which it may be inferred that the acts of a political group could be imputed to the Parliament as an institution of the Communities (Case C-201/89 Le Pen and the Front National [1990] ECR I-1183, paragraph 14). The defendant submits that what applies to a political group should for even more compelling reasons apply to individual Members of the European Parliament.
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