115As a preliminary point, it should be observed that the applicant’s claims seeking the annulment of the decisions by which the Director of SatCen allegedly rejected her complaints against the decision to reject the request for assistance, the decision to initiate disciplinary proceedings, the suspension decision and the removal decision must be regarded as being directed against those four decisions. According to settled case-law relating to the pre-litigation procedure provided for in Article 90 of the Staff Regulations, which pursues the same objective as Article 28(1) to (3) of the SatCen Staff Regulations (see paragraph 94 above), the complaint of a servant and its rejection by the competent authority constitute an integral part of a complex procedure, so that the action, even if it is formally directed against the rejection of the complaint of the servant, has the effect of bringing before the General Court the act adversely affecting the applicant against which the complaint was lodged (see, by analogy, judgment of 20 September 2000, De Palma and Others v Commission, T‑203/99, EU:T:2000:213, paragraph 21 and the case-law cited).