96In any event, and contrary to what the applicant claims (see paragraph 55 above), the Council's letter of 14 June 2000 may also be taken into consideration in order to examine whether the statement of reasons in this case was adequate, because the duty to state reasons must be assessed in the light of the information available to the applicant at the time the application was brought. If, as in the present case, the applicant, before bringing an action but after the date laid down by Article 8(1) of Directive 93/37, asks the institution concerned for additional explanations about a decision and receives those explanations, it cannot ask the Court not to take them into consideration when determining whether the statement of reasons is adequate; however, the institution is not permitted to substitute an entirely new statement of reasons for the original statement of reasons, but that is not the position in this case. In its letter of 14 June 2000, the Council, supplementing its letter of 11 May 2000, provided explanations which were more detailed but which correspond to the explanations given in the letter of 11 May as regards the rejection of the applicant's tender. Moreover, the Court considers that the fact that fuller information was given in the letter of 14 June 2000 does not mean that the reasons stated in the letter of 11 May 2000 were inadequate.
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