Judgment_paragraph 86 · SU v European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (T-296/21)

86According to the case-law, in order to determine whether the loss of opportunity is real, it is necessary to examine whether it has been established to the requisite legal standard that the applicant was deprived not necessarily of the renewal of her contract, which she can never prove would have occurred, but of a genuine opportunity to have her contract renewed, with material damage for the applicant consisting of loss of income (see, to that effect, judgments of 5 October 2004, Eagle and Others v Commission, T‑144/02, EU:T:2004:290, paragraph 165, and of 24 October 2018, Fernández González v Commission, T‑162/17 RENV, not published, EU:T:2018:711, paragraph 111).