Judgment_paragraph 61 · HF v European Parliament (T-570/16)

61Conducting the administrative inquiry through to completion is also important because, should the AECE find that there has been psychological harassment upon completion of the administrative inquiry, which may have been conducted with the assistance of separate department of the AECE such as the Advisory Committee, this in itself is likely to have a beneficial effect in the therapeutic process of recovery of an official or other member of staff who has been harassed (judgment of 8 February 2011, Skareby v Commission, F‑95/09, EU:F:2011:9, paragraph 26) and may also be used by the victim for the purposes of a national court action, in respect of which the AECE’s duty to provide assistance under Article 24 of the Staff Regulations will apply and will not expire at the end of the servant’s period of employment. On the other side of the equation, the conduct of an administrative inquiry through to completion may make it possible to disprove the allegations made by the purported victim, thereby making it possible to repair the damage which such an accusation, should it prove to be unfounded, may have caused to the person named as the alleged harasser by an inquiry procedure (judgment of 6 October 2015, CH v Parliament, F‑132/14, EU:F:2015:115, paragraphs 123 and 124).