27Thus, the Civil Service Tribunal disregarded, in the first place, the case-law according to which the statement of reasons for the decision rejecting a complaint is deemed to supplement the statement of reasons for the decision against which the complaint was directed (see, to that effect, Case T-562/93 Obst v Commission [1995] ECR-SC I-A-247 and II-737, paragraph 79, and Case T-71/96 Berlingieri Vinzek v Commission [1997] ECR-SC I-A-339 and II-921, paragraph 79), in the second place, the principle of legality, according to which the reasons for a decision may be based only on factors which predate or are contemporaneous with it, and, in the third place, the purpose of the pre-litigation procedure consisting in giving the parties the possibility of finding an amicable solution to the dispute (Case T-86/98 Gouloussis v Commission [2000] ECR-SC I-A-5 and II-23, paragraph 61).
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