60In the fifth place, as regards the appellant’s argument that, in confirming that the appointing authority was entitled to instruct IDOC to conduct the hearing referred to in Article 3 of Annex IX to the Staff Regulations, the General Court failed to have regard, in paragraphs 89 and 90 of the judgment under appeal, to the principle of respect for the rights of the defence, notably the right to be heard and the inter partes principle, it should be borne in mind that, as the General Court stated in paragraph 77 of the judgment under appeal, respect for the rights of the defence, in which the right to be heard is inherent, is a fundamental principle of EU law which applies to everyone and which must be guaranteed in all procedures which are liable to culminate in an act adversely affecting a person (see, to that effect, judgment of 18 June 2020, Commission v RQ, C‑831/18 P, EU:C:2020:481, paragraph 67 and the case-law cited).
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