Volgens verzoeker was het bestreden besluit dus niet ingegeven door het dienstbelang, doch door de wil van de secretaris-generaal om hem niet te bevorderen, omdat hij "hem in slechte herinnering had" wegens de twee bovenvermelde incidenten (te weten de later ingetrokken bevordering van de kabinetschef van de secretaris-generaal tot A 2-ambtenaar, en zaak 85/82), waar verzoeker bij betrokken was en waarin de secretaris-generaal "op juridisch vlak het onderspit had gedolven".
According to the applicant, the contested decision was therefore motivated not by the interests of the service but by the intention of the Secretary-General not to promote him because he had "unpleasant memories of him" as a result of the two cases mentioned above (the one involving the appointment of the chef de cabinet as an official in Grade A 2, which was subsequently withdrawn, and Case 85/82), in which the applicant had been involved and in which the Secretary-General had lost "from the legal point of view".EurLex-2 EurLex-2