Mr Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

‛Civil service — Officials — Action for annulment — Official of grade AD 14 temporarily filling a post as adviser to a Director — Allegation of psychological harassment against the Director-General — Long-term sick leave — Decision to appoint the applicant to a post as adviser in another Directorate-General — Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials — Principle of sound administration — Interests of the service — Rule that the grade must correspond with the post — Application for damages — Harm arising from a failure to take a decision’

g. Following organisational changes in 1999 and the abolition of the post of deputy general director, he became director of the legal section.

82. Welcomes the achievement of the Secretary-General - in response to previous discharge resolutions, reports by the Court of Auditors and the Internal Auditor - in having obtained the necessary supporting documents to regularise virtually all claims (99.9 % by amount) for the period 2004 - 2007; takes note of the simplification of the claims procedure introduced on 13 December 2006 whereby invoices and fee statements issued by paying agents and service providers are no longer required to be submitted by Members but must be retained by them; instead, Members are now required to submit copies of the 'statements of expenditure' and ' st ...[+++]atements of amounts invoiced' issued by paying agents and service providers;

On this occasion, of course, we have done no more than assemble circumstantial evidence rather than watertight proof, quite simply because no head of a secret service is going to come out and say, ‘Yes, of course, that’s how we did it.

13. Calls on the operators providing services of general interest to make the data relating to their social impact accessible for the purposes of verifying that they satisfy the obligations undertaken and comply with the guidelines adopted for the relevant sector, in particular through the publication of an annual social report. Calls for the establishment by the Commission of an Observatory function to be provided by an existing EU agency;