71Thereafter, it is worth noting that an administrative inquiry procedure carried out following the submission, by an official or other staff member, of a request for assistance within the meaning of Article 24 of the Staff Regulations, concerning the acts of a third party, who is an official or other staff member, or even a Member of an institution, allegedly constituting psychological harassment within the meaning of Article 12a of the Staff Regulations, is indeed initiated at the request of the person concerned, but cannot be regarded as an inquiry procedure initiated against that official or other staff member (see, to that effect, judgment of 16 May 2012, Skareby v Commission, F‑42/10, EU:F:2012:64, paragraph 46). According to settled case-law, the role of the person who submitted the request for assistance alleging harassment consists essentially in cooperating in the proper conduct of the administrative inquiry in order to establish the facts (judgments of 26 January 1989, Koutchoumoff v Commission, 224/87, EU:C:1989:38, paragraphs 15 and 16; of 25 October 2007, Lo Giudice v Commission, T‑154/05, EU:T:2007:322, paragraph 136; and of 6 October 2015, CH v Parliament, F‑132/14, EU:F:2015:115, paragraph 87).
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