CONTENTION IN QUESTION IS UNFOUNDED .
SUBMISSION ALLEGING IMPROPER ASSESSMENT OF THE CANDIDATE' S PERSONAL FILE
18 THE APPLICANT CLAIMS, IN ESSENCE, THAT IN ASSESSING HIS PERSONAL FILE THE SELECTION BOARD TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION FACTORS WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISREGARDED, NAMELY HIS STAFF REPORTS, AND FAILED TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF RELEVANT FACTORS, NAMELY THE NUMBER OF COMPETITIONS FOR CATEGORY A POSTS IN WHICH THE APPLICANT HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND A COMPLAINT SUBMITTED BY HIM ( AND SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAWN ), CONCERNING THE DUTIES ASSIGNED TO HIM . THE APPLICANT ALSO MAINTAINS THAT THE PROCEDURES CHOSEN BY THE SELECTION BOARD FOR ASSESSING THE PERSONAL FILES DID NOT IN HIS CASE ENSURE ANONYMITY, OWING TO HIS LENGTH OF SERVICE AND TO THE MANY COMPETITIONS IN WHICH HE HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL, AND HE CLAIMS THAT AN UNFAVOURABLE ASSESSMENT OF HIS PERSONAL FILE MUST NECESSARILY BE DUE EITHER TO SUBJECTIVE FACTORS ALIEN TO THE COMPETITION OR TO A MISTAKE .
19 THE COMMISSION OBSERVES THAT, WHEN EXAMINING THE PERSONAL FILES, THE SELECTION BOARD TOOK ACCOUNT OF NO OTHER DOCUMENTS - APART FROM THE APPLICATION FORMS AND SPECIAL ANNEXES THERETO - THAN THOSE INCLUDED IN THE FILES OF THE OFFICIALS WHO HAD APPLIED . THE SELECTION BOARD DECIDED ON A PROCEDURE FOR EXAMINING THE FILES WHICH WOULD ENSURE THE CANDIDATES' ANONYMITY, INASMUCH AS THE CHAIRMAN WOULD READ OUT ALL THE DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION RELEVANT TO AN ASSESSMENT . THE NAME OF THE CANDIDATE WAS NOT REVEALED UNTIL AFTER THE SELECTION BOARD HAD ENTERED HIM ON A SCALE OF MERIT, BY REFERENCE TO AN "AVERAGE PROFILE" CONSIDERED TO REFLECT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A "GOOD" PERSONAL FILE .
20 IT SHOULD FIRST BE RECALLED THAT ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 26 OF THE STAFF REGULATIONS THE PERSONAL FILE OF AN OFFICIAL, ON WHICH THE SELECTION BOARD MUST IN PART BASE ITS ASSESSMENT, MUST CONTAIN ALL DOCUMENTS CONCERNING HIS ADMINISTRATIVE STATUS AND ALL THE REPORTS RELATING TO HIS ABILITY, EFFICIENCY AND CONDUCT, TOGETHER WITH ANY COMMENTS BY THE OFFICIAL ON SUCH DOCUMENTS . ARTICLE 26 ALSO REQUIRES THAT DOCUMENTS INCLUDED ON THE PERSONAL FILE OF AN OFFICIAL SHALL HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO HIM BEFORE THEY ARE FILED .
21 THE NEXT POINT TO BE NOTED IS THAT THE APPLICATION FORM AND ITS SPECIAL ANNEX, ON WHICH THE SELECTION BOARD ALSO HAD TO BASE ITS ASSESSMENT, WERE INTENDED FOR SUCH INFORMATION AS A CANDIDATE SAW FIT TO SET OUT REGARDING IN PARTICULAR HIS TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING A MENTION OF ANY COMPETITION IN WHICH HE HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL .
22 IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, IT MUST BE CONCLUDED THAT THE APPLICANT' S CONTENTIONS CONCERNING THE REGARD HAD TO HIS STAFF REPORTS AND THE ABSENCE OF INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITIONS IN WHICH HE SUCCESSFULLY PARTICIPATED ARE MANIFESTLY UNFOUNDED .
23 AS REGARDS THE CONTENTION THAT NO ACCOUNT WAS TAKEN OF A COMPLAINT SUBMITTED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAWN, BY THE APPLICANT CONCERNING THE TASKS ASSIGNED TO HIM, IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT, HAD HE TAKEN THE VIEW THAT HIS STAFF REPORTS WERE DEFICIENT ON THAT