13With regard to the claim for annulment of the decision of 24 September 1999, the Court of First Instance observed at paragraph 25 of the contested judgment that it is settled case-law that, once a recruitment procedure has been initiated under Article 29 of the Staff Regulations, the appointing authority is not obliged to pursue it (judgments of the Court of Justice in Case 26/68 Fux v Commission [1969] ECR 145, paragraph 11, and of the Court of First Instance in Case T-38/89 Hochbaum v Commission [1990] ECR II-43, paragraph 15).
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