28By decision of 3 February 2017, the authority empowered to conclude contracts of employment (AECE) of the Commission rejected that complaint on the ground, in essence, that it could not be said that the applicant, who had Belgian as one of his nationalities, had not maintained or established a link with Belgium during the reference period under Article 4(1)(b) of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations. According to the AECE, during that period, running from 15 July 2006 to 15 July 2016, the applicant had made his home in Brussels, where he had married and had three children. What is more, for 6 months and 2 weeks, between February and September 2013, the applicant carried out a private occupation in Brussels as an interim member of staff and that period of work could not be regarded as duties carried out in the service of an international organisation. Furthermore, for the period covering August 2013, during which the applicant was unemployed, he failed to show that his habitual residence was outside Belgium.
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