44An error may be said to be manifest only where it may easily be detected in the light of the criteria to which the legislature intended the exercise by the administration of its broad discretion to be subject. Consequently, in order to establish that a manifest error was made in the assessment of the facts such as to justify the annulment of a decision, the evidence, which it is for the applicant to adduce, must be sufficient to make the findings upheld by the administration in its decision implausible. In other words, a plea alleging a manifest error must be rejected if, despite the evidence adduced by the applicant, the contested assessment may still be accepted as true or valid (judgments in AJ v Commission, F‑80/10, EU:F:2011:172, paragraphs 34 and 35; Eklund v Commission, F‑57/11, EU:F:2012:145, paragraph 51, and order in Mészáros v Commission, F‑22/13, EU:F:2014:189, paragraph 52).
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