31In those circumstances, which were disputed by the applicant at first instance as being contradictory reasons, the Civil Service Tribunal considered, as a preliminary point, taking as a basis Commission v Birkhoff, cited above, paragraphs 58 and 59, that, in view of the evolving nature of the pre-litigation procedure, it is the statement of reasons contained in the decision rejecting the complaint which must be taken into account in the review of legality of the original act adversely affecting an official, since that statement of reasons is deemed to supplement that act. The Civil Service Tribunal none the less specified that it was still in fact the legality of the original act adversely affecting the official that was examined, in the light of the reasons contained in the decision rejecting the complaint.
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