67The Tribunal notes that, as is apparent from settled case-law, the rule of correspondence between the complaint, under Article 91(2) of the Staff Regulations, and the subsequent application requires that, in order to be admissible, the pleas directed against the act adversely affecting the applicant and raised before the European Union judicature must have already been raised in the pre-litigation procedure, so that the appointing authority or the AECCE was in a position to know the criticisms which the person concerned is making against the contested decision. That rule is justified by the very purpose of the pre-litigation procedure, which is to allow for an amicable settlement of disputes arising between officials and the administration (judgment in Commission v Moschonaki, T‑476/11 P, EU:T:2013:557, paragraphs 71 and 72, and the case-law cited). Furthermore, the implementation of the rule of correspondence between the application and the complaint, and its review by the Courts of the European Union, must guarantee full compliance, first, with the principle of effective judicial protection, which is a general principle of EU law laid down in Article 47 of the Charter, so that the person concerned may be in a position legitimately to challenge a decision of the appointing authority or of the AECCE which adversely affects him, and, secondly, with the principle of legal certainty, so that the appointing authority or the AECCE may be in a position to know, at the complaint stage, the criticisms which the person concerned makes of the contested decision (judgment in Commission v Moschonaki, EU:T:2013:557, paragraph 82).
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