29In the second place, as regards the decision of 20 November 2018, it must be recalled that, in accordance with settled case-law relating to, inter alia, the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the ECB’s Staff Rules, claims for annulment formally directed against the decision rejecting a pre-litigation application challenging an act adversely affecting an official or staff member have the effect of bringing that act before the Court where those claims, in themselves, have no independent content (see, to that effect, judgments of 26 March 2020, Teeäär v ECB, T‑547/18, EU:T:2020:119, paragraph 24 and the case-law cited, and of 16 January 2018, SE v Council, T‑231/17, not published, EU:T:2018:3, paragraph 21).