22In the first place, in paragraphs 47 to 49 of the judgment under appeal, the Tribunal dismissed, for the following reasons, CEPOL’s objections of inadmissibility, based, respectively, on the confirmatory nature of the contested decision and the fact that that decision was merely the expression, under circumscribed powers, of the decision of the EU legislature to transfer the seat of CEPOL to Budapest, which the appellants had not challenged or claimed to be unlawful:47 As a preliminary point, it should be borne in mind that, even if it is common ground that the applicants individually consented to taking up their duties in Budapest, that consent is not such as to cause the contested decision to cease to be an act adversely affecting them (judgment of 11 July 1996, Ortega Urretavizcaya v Commission, T‑587/93, EU:T:1996:100, paragraph 28).48 Next, the Tribunal considers that, in the present case, the AECE of CEPOL, by the contested decision, communicated to the entirety of the Agency’s staff the fact that, pursuant to Decision 2005/681/JHA, as amended by Regulation No 543/2014, it had decided on the place and date for the reassignment of the Agency’s staff. It is apparent from the contested decision that that decision establishes that the duties of the Agency’s staff would be taken up in Budapest on 1 October 2014.49 Such a communication, although purportedly implementing an act of general application of the Council and of the Parliament, must be regarded as a decision adversely affecting the applicants in that it amends their place of employment under conditions which are, allegedly, unlawful. Therefore it must be acknowledged that the contested decision is a challengeable act (see, to that effect, judgment of 24 February 1981, Carbognani and Coda Zabetta v Commission, 161/80 and 162/80, EU:C:1981:51, paragraph 14), with the result that the objection of inadmissibility raised by CEPOL in that regard must be dismissed.’
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