{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1352/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1352/article-40.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2016/1352",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/1352 of 4 August 2016 concerning the rules applicable to national experts seconded to the European Defence Agency, and repealing Decision 2004/677/EC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1352",
  "path": "article/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Complaints",
  "text": "Without prejudice to the possibilities for instituting proceedings after taking up a position, under the conditions and time limits laid down in Article 263 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, any SNE may submit a complaint to the authority authorised to conclude contracts (hereinafter referred to as the ‘AACC’) of employment under the Staff Regulations of the Agency about an act by the AACC under this Decision which adversely affects the SNE, with the exception of acts which follow directly from decisions taken by the employer.\nThe complaint must be lodged within two months. The period shall run from the date of notification of the decision to the person concerned, but in no case later than the date on which the latter received such notification. The AACC shall notify the person concerned of a reasoned decision within four months from the date on which the complaint was lodged. If at the end of that period the SNE has not received a reply to the complaint, the complaint shall be deemed to have been implicitly rejected.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1352/article/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:51.594341+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}