Order — ECLI:EU:T:2000:96
Date: 2000-03-30
Based on: Merger Treaty (1965)
Subject matter: Staff regulations and employment conditions - EC
Concepts: Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities;Application form
Procedure: Staff cases - unfounded

SUMMARY — CASE T-12/00 
Summary 
1. Officials - Competition — Competition based on qualifications and tests — 
Conditions of admission — Production of qualifications for the purpose of admission 
to the tests — Obligation on candidates in the terms of the notice of competition -
Scope — Participation in previous competitions - No effect 
2. Officials — Competition — Special procedure for the recruitment of temporary 
staff — Conditions of admission — Evidence showing professional experience — 
Discrimination — Absence 
1. A selection board for a competition cannot be required to undertake its own 
inquiries in order to ascertain whether candidates have been allowed to take part in 
a previous competition procedure. Candidates are responsible for providing the 
selection board with all the information which they consider relevant to the 
examination of their candidatures. When clear provisions in a notice of competition 
lay down the unequivocal requirement that candidates attach to their application 
form all necessary supporting documents, a candidate's failure to comply with that 
obligation cannot enable or, a fortiori, oblige the selection board or the appointing 
authority to act contrary to that notice of competition. 
(see para. 22) 
See: 225/87 Belardinelli and Others v Court of Justice [1989] ECR 2353; C-255/90 P 
Búrban v Parliament [1992] ECR I-2253, para. 12 
2. When the conditions set out in a notice of selection restrict access to the selection 
tests to candidates having relevant professional experience of a minimum duration, 
it is legitimate and justifiable, for the purpose of checking candidates' professional 
experience, to request in the application form that a certificate of employment or 
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one or more contracts or employment and the most recent pay-slip be submitted. 
Such provisions are not in any way discriminatory. 
(see para. 25) 
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