R. whereas the fact that Mr Kozlov was arrested and held incommunicado shortly after returning from his meetings with the European Parliament and the European External Action Service gives the EU additional reason for concern, and highlights the importance of safeguarding our institutions’ ability to conduct dialogues with a broad range of actors in the EU’s partner countries without this having any negative consequence for our interlocutors;

First, as regards the rule that the application correspond to the complaint and the purpose of the pre-litigation procedure, it should be stressed that the pre-litigation procedure laid down by Article 90 of the Staff Regulations, which is applicable to temporary officials pursuant to Article 46 of the CEOS, as a whole, is intended to permit and encourage the amicable settlement of differences which have arisen between officials and the administration (Case 142/85 Schwiering v Court of Auditors [1986] ECR 3177, paragraph 11; Case 133/88 Del Amo Martinez v Parliament [1989] ECR 689, paragraph 9; and Case T-57/89 Alexandrakis v Commissio ...[+++]n [1990] ECR II-143, paragraph 8) and to compel the authority having control over the official to reconsider its decision in the light of any objections which that official may make (Case 101/79 Vecchioli v Commission [1980] ECR 3069, paragraph 31, and Case T-53/92 Piette de Stachelski v Commission [1993] ECR II-35, paragraph 16).

Was this amongst the issues agreed on by the Laeken European Council when drawing up guidelines for the constitutional reform of the Treaties?

I do think that this is, as a whole, a respectable Budget, and I again ask the Commission to see to it that what was decided by the Council and Parliament is also implemented in 2003.

Was this amongst the issues agreed on by the Laeken European Council when drawing up guidelines for the constitutional reform of the Treaties?

(97) See Joined Cases T-68/89, T-77/89 and T-78/89, SIV and Others v Commission [1992] ECR II-1403, paragraph 358, Case C-393/92 Almelo [1994] ECR I-1477, paragraph 43, Case C-96/94, Centro Servizi Spediporto [1995] ECR I-2883, paragraph 33, Joined Cases C-140/94, 141/94, and C-142/94, DIP, [1995] ECR I-3257, paragraph 62, Case C-70/95, Sodemare [1997] ECR I-3395, paragraph 46, and Joined Cases C-68/94 and C-30/95 France and Others v Commission [1998] ECR I-1375, paragraph 221.