45In Articles 86 to 89 and in Annex IX, which concern the disciplinary system applicable to Community officials, the Staff Regulations do not provide for any limitation period with regard to the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against an official accused of having failed to fulfil one of his obligations under the Regulations. It is important to note, in that regard, that, in order to fulfil its function of ensuring legal certainty, a limitation period must be fixed in advance by the Community legislature (judgments in Case T-26/89 de Compte v Parliament [1991] ECR II-781, paragraph 68, and Case T-197/00 Onidi v Commission [2002] ECRSC I-A-69 and II-325, paragraph 88).
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