ORDER OF THE COURT (Fifth Chamber)
8 March 2007
Case C-237/06 P
Guido Strack
v
Commission of the European Communities
(Appeal – Staff cases – Decision to close an OLAF investigation – Allegations of fraud made by an official – Locus standi of the official)
Appeal: against the order of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 22 March 2006 in Case T-4/05 Strack v Commission [2006] ECR-SC I-A-83 and II-361 by which the Court dismissed as inadmissible an action seeking, first, annulment of OLAF’s decision to close an investigation initiated after allegations of fraud made by the appellant, and of the final report of the investigation, and, second, re-initiation of that investigation and the drawing-up of a new final report.
Held: The appeal is dismissed. Mr Strack is ordered to pay the costs.
Summary
Officials – Actions – Acts adversely affecting an official – Concept – Decision of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to close the investigation
(Staff Regulations, Arts 22a, 22b, 90 and 91; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1073/1999)
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