74In that regard, first, the applicant’s request for access to the Parliament’s infrastructure and computer facilities appears to be part of an understandable process enabling her to contact newly-elected Members before they took office and take advantage of her status as a serving APA, which a Parliament email address would have confirmed, giving her a degree of visibility. Similarly, the applicant wished to have access to certain information available within the Parliament. However, although the institution may, where appropriate, allow its officials and other staff to use, out of working hours, its infrastructure, including its computers, for purposes not relating to work, that option for the institution cannot be made into an entitlement under the Staff Regulations for officials and other staff, especially in a situation like that in the present case, in which the person concerned has been exempted from carrying out her duties in the interests of the service and where the Parliament’s internal rules clearly state that ‘email … is strictly to be used only directly in connection with the duties performed by the [staff member]’.
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