86Although GIPs for Article 110 of the Staff Regulations cannot be adopted by an agency without the agreement of the Commission, thus conferring on the latter a certain supervisory power, it is, on the other hand, merely required that the Staff Committee be consulted, a modest form of participation in a decision-making process which in no circumstances involves any obligation for the administration to act upon the observations made by the Staff Committee in the course of the consultation. However, unless it is to undermine the effectiveness of the obligation to consult, the administration must comply with that obligation whenever consultation of the Staff Committee is such as to have an influence on the substance of the measure to be adopted (see, to that effect, judgment of 20 November 2003 in Cerafogli and Poloni v ECB, T‑63/02, EU:T:2003:308, paragraph 23 and the case-law cited therein).
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