Ethics office
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Jurisdiction / receivability (UNDT or first instance)
Subject matter (ratione materiae)
UNAT agreed with the UNDT finding that it lacked jurisdiction in respect of the staff member鈥檚 application to review the determination of the Second Alternate Chair. UNAT noted that the subject matter jurisdiction of UNDT is limited to the review of administrative decisions. The determinations of the Second Alternate Chair do not constitute administrative decisions, and as such, any application to review them before the UNDT is not receivable. UNAT highlighted that ST/SGB/2017/2/Rev.1 confers on the Ethics Office only the power to recommend, advise and refer, and Section 10.3 of ST/SGB/2017/2/...