45Lastly, the argument that the contested decision involves a failure by the ECB to take into account its own liability for having provided unclear information on the conditions for the grant of the child allowance, is irrelevant. The mere fact that the internal audit revealed that ten other members of the ECB’s staff also received child allowance is of no importance in this connection. Next, the applicant has not challenged the ECB’s statements, contained in the defence, concerning the information on this topic provided to every newly-recruited member of staff and also available on the ECB’s intranet site. In any event, it is settled case-law that a member of staff exercising ordinary care is deemed to know the rules governing his remuneration (judgment of 1 February 1996 in Case T‑122/95 Chabert v Commission, paragraph 32).
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