FIELDS .
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS :
- SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL EDUCATION EVIDENCED BY A CERTIFICATE OR AN EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE;
- KNOWLEDGE OF PLANT BIOLOGY;
- THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF METHODS OF TESTING AND SAMPLING SEEDS AND PLANTS;
- EXPERIENCE IN THE SPHERES OF SEEDS AND PLANTS . "
5 ALTHOUGH THE WAY IN WHICH THAT NOTICE DESCRIBED THE DUTIES INVOLVED IN THE APPLICANT' S POST ( IN PARTICULAR IN THE DUTCH VERSION THEREOF WHICH IS HIS MOTHER TONGUE ) AND ABOVE ALL THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS MIGHT GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE OFFICE WORK WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE PRACTICAL WORK RELATING TO ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT THE APPLICANT, WHO HAD HAD SEVERAL CONTACTS WITH THE BRANCH IN QUESTION BEFORE HE SUBMITTED HIS APPLICATION FOR THE POST, HAD BEEN UNABLE TO FORM QUITE AN ACCURATE IDEA OF WHAT HE COULD EXPECT IN THE POST IN QUESTION .
6 THE FIRST REPORT AT THE END OF THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD DATED 30 JULY 1969 STATED THAT MR NAGELS " KNOWS HIS SUBJECT WELL " BUT POINTED OUT INADEQUACIES IN PARTICULAR AS REGARDS HIS ABILITY TO DRAFT SATISFACTORY REPORTS RELATING TO WORKING SESSIONS AND TO FIELD VISITS IN WHICH HE HAD TO TAKE PART AND TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES AND THE MINOR DETAILS .
7 IN HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THAT REPORT, THE APPLICANT STRESSED THE TECHNICAL NATURE OF HIS TRAINING, AND WHILST HE CONSIDERED THAT THE ASSESSMENT OF HIS ABILITY TO FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS OF A POST IN B1, WHICH WAS AS A WHOLE UNFAVOURABLE, WAS UNJUSTIFIED, HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE CRITICISMS OF HIS DRAFTING AND INTERPRETATION OF WRITTEN DOCUMENTS WERE WELL FOUNDED .
8 THE PROBATION REPORT OF 1 NOVEMBER 1969 CONFIRMED THE PREVIOUS REPORT .
9 THE NOTE ATTACHED TO THE PROBATION REPORT OF 19 JANUARY 1970 SPECIFIED ALL THE TASKS WITH WHICH THE APPLICANT HAD BEEN ENTRUSTED FROM THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER 1969 AND GAVE AN UNFAVOURABLE APPRAISAL OF THE RESULTS OF THE WORK WHICH MR NAGELS HAD PERFORMED IN THIS RESPECT .
10 IN HIS OBSERVATIONS OF 27 JANUARY 1970, MR NAGELS, WHILST COMPLAINING THAT HIS ACTUAL WORK FELL INTO A CONTEXT WHICH WAS MORE LEGAL THAN TECHNICAL AND THAT 75 PER CENT THEREOF FELL OUTSIDE THE DESCRIPTION OF " TEST FIELDS " AND ALTHOUGH HE STATED THAT HE ENTIRELY REJECTED THE FINDINGS OF THAT REPORT, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE STILL NEEDED SOME TIME, ON THE ONE HAND TO FAMILIARIZE HIMSELF WITH THE MANY ASPECTS OF THE WORK WHICH WERE NOT STRICTLY TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL WHICH WERE REQUIRED OF HIM AND IN WHICH HE HAD NO EXPERIENCE AND ON THE OTHER, " TO REACH THE EUROPEAN STANDARD " IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK WHICH WAS MORE STRICTLY LINKED TO THE PRACTICAL FIELD EXPERIMENTS .
11 IT EMERGES FROM THE FILE THAT THE COMMISSION ENTRUSTED THE APPLICANT INTER ALIA WITH TECHNICAL TASKS CORRESPONDING TO HIS TRAINING AND SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE, ALTHOUGH TO A LESSER EXTENT THAN THE APPLICANT MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED