230In addition, by not affording the applicant the opportunity to put forward her point of view to useful effect at the end of the administrative investigation, SatCen deprived her of the possibility of persuading the Director of SatCen that a different initial assessment of the facts, decisive for the further development of the procedure, was possible. It cannot be accepted that, in the circumstances of the present case, the Director of SatCen would have adopted the decision to initiate disciplinary proceedings, which led to the adoption of the removal decision, if the applicant had been afforded the opportunity to submit her observations to useful effect on the investigation report and on the evidence in the investigation files. Such an approach would have the effect of rendering meaningless the fundamental right to be heard and the fundamental right of access to the file, enshrined in Article 41(2)(a) and (b) of the Charter respectively, since the very content of those rights implies that the person concerned must have the possibility of influencing the decision-making process at issue (see, by analogy, judgment of 14 September 2011, Marcuccio v Commission, T‑236/02, EU:T:2011:465, paragraph 115).