70In that connection, it should be recalled, in so far as concerns the award of damages, that, according to settled case-law, under the second sentence of Article 91(1) of the Staff Regulations, the General Court has, in disputes of a financial character, unlimited jurisdiction, pursuant to which it has the power, if need be, of its own motion to order the defendant to pay compensation for the damage caused by the defendant’s wrongful act and, in such a case, taking account of all the circumstances of the case, to assess the damage suffered ex aequo et bono (see, inter alia, judgments of 5 June 1980, Oberthür v Commission, 24/79, EU:C:1980:145, paragraph 14; of 21 February 2008, Commission v Girardot, C‑348/06 P, EU:C:2008:107, paragraph 58; and of 20 May 2010, Gogos v Commission, C‑583/08 P, EU:C:2010:287, paragraph 44).
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