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Summary

Keywords

1 . OFFICIALS - RECRUITMENT - COMPETITIONS - SELECTION BOARDS - SECRECY OF PROCEEDINGS - EXTENT

( STAFF REGULATIONS OF OFFICIALS , ANNEX III , ART . 6 )

2 . OFFICIALS - RECRUITMENT - COMPETITIONS - SELECTION BOARDS - REFUSAL OF ADMISSION TO THE TESTS - OBLIGATION TO GIVE A STATEMENT OF REASONS - EXTENT

( STAFF REGULATIONS OF OFFICIALS , ANNEX III , ART . 5 )

Summary

1 . THE SECRECY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF SELECTION BOARDS FOR COMPETITIONS WAS INTRODUCED BY ARTICLE 6 OF ANNEX III TO THE STAFF REGULATIONS OF OFFICIALS WITH A VIEW TO GUARANTEEING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SELECTION BOARDS AND THE OBJECTIVITY OF THEIR PROCEEDINGS , BY PROTECTING THEM FROM ALL EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE AND PRESSURES WHETHER THESE COME FROM THE COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION ITSELF OR THE CANDIDATES CONCERNED OR THIRD PARTIES . CONSEQUENTLY OBSERVANCE OF THIS SECRECY RUNS COUNTER TO DIVULGING THE ATTITUDES ADOPTED BY INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF SELECTION BOARDS AND ALSO TO REVEALING ALL THE FACTORS RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL OR COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF CANDIDATES . HOWEVER THE SCOPE OF THIS SECRECY CANNOT BE WIDENED TO SUCH AN EXTENT AS TO REFUSE DISCLOSURE OF OBJECTIVE FACTS AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT UPON WHICH SELECTION HAS BEEN BASED , AT THE STAGE OF THE PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMPETITION , WHICH ENABLES THOSE WHOSE APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN REJECTED EVEN BEFORE ANY INDIVIDUAL TEST TO ASCERTAIN THE POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THEIR ELIMINATION .

2 . THE REQUIREMENT THAT SELECTION BOARDS FOR COMPETITIONS GIVE A STATEMENT OF THE REASONS FOR DECISIONS REFUSING TO ADMIT A CANDIDATE TO THE TESTS MUST BE EVALUATED HAVING REGARD TO THE DIFFERENT LEVELS AND TYPES OF COMPETITION AND , MORE PARTICULARLY , TO THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES COMPETING IN EACH OF THEM . IN THE CASE OF COMPETITIONS WHERE THE CANDIDATES ARE MORE NUMEROUS , THE STATEMENT OF THE REASONS FOR THE REJECTION OF APPLICATIONS MUST NOT BE SO VOLUMINOUS AS TO PLACE AN INTOLERABLE BURDEN ON THE BUSINESS OF THE SELECTION BOARDS AND THE WORK OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION .