127Furthermore, the Tribunal holds that it is necessary to grant the applicant’s request that interest should be added to that sum at the rate set by the ECB for principal refinancing operations, plus two basis points. In the absence of an indication of the date from which such default interest should apply, the Tribunal decides, in the context of its unlimited jurisdiction (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 July 1998 in Aquilino v Council, T‑130/96, EU:T:1998:159, paragraph 39), that such interest shall start to apply with effect from the date of adoption of the decision rejecting the complaint, namely 4 August 2014, since, until that date, the AECE still had, in principle, the option of opening an administrative inquiry as a measure to comply with the judgment in CH in order to fulfil the request to that effect made by the applicant on 15 January 2014.
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