VACANCY NOTICE IS TO GIVE THOSE INTERESTED THE MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION POSSIBLE ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR THE POST TO WHICH IT RELATES , IN ORDER TO ENABLE THEM TO JUDGE WHETHER THEY SHOULD APPLY FOR IT , AND THAT WHEN THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY HAS TO FILL A POST , IT MUST , WHEN DRAWING UP THE VACANCY NOTICE , TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY REQUIRED OF THE HOLDER .
9 HOWEVER THE COURT HAS RECOGNIZED THAT THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY HAS A WIDE DISCRETION IN COMPARING THE CANDIDATES ' MERITS AND THAT ITS ASSESSMENT AS TO WHETHER A CANDIDATE FULFILS THE CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY REQUIRED BY THE VACANCY NOTICE MAY BE QUESTIONED ONLY IN THE EVENT OF MANIFEST ERROR .
10 IT IS CLEAR FROM THE FILE THAT MR L . HAD BEEN EMPLOYED AS AN ARCHITECT BY A FIRM IN ROTTERDAM FOR A PERIOD OF ABOUT FIVE YEARS AND THEN BY A FIRM IN ROME FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS ( DURING WHICH TIME HE WAS CONCERNED WITH PROJECTS AND STUDIES IN THE FIELD MENTIONED IN THE VACANCY NOTICE ). THEREAFTER HE WAS IN THE SERVICE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COOPERATION , AS CONTROLLER OF THE EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND , FROM SEPTEMBER 1973 TO MAY 1976 . ON 1 JUNE 1976 HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE COMMISSION , WHERE HE PERFORMED THE DUTIES OF HEAD OF THE WEST AFRICA DIVISION OF DIRECTORATE-GENERAL VIII .
11 IT ALSO EMERGES FROM THE FILE THAT SIX OFFICIALS OF THE COMMISSION APPLIED FOR THE POST TO BE FILLED . ACCORDING TO THE COMMISSION ' S USUAL PRACTICE , THE CANDIDATES ' QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE WERE EXAMINED BY THE DIRECTOR- GENERAL OF DIRECTORATE-GENERAL VIII . ACCORDING TO HIS REPORT , ONLY THE APPLICATIONS OF MR L . AND THE APPLICANT MET THE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE POST TO BE FILLED . IN THE LIGHT OF THAT REPORT AND AFTER EXAMINING THE CANDIDATES ' QUALIFICATIONS AND MERITS , THE COMMISSION APPOINTED MR L . TO THE VACANT POST .
12 IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES , IT MUST BE STATED THAT THE APPLICANT HAS NOT SUBMITTED TO THE COURT ANY FACTORS CAPABLE OF ESTABLISHING THAT THE COMMISSION HAD COMMITTED A MANIFEST ERROR OF JUDGMENT IN CONSIDERING THAT MR L . FULFILLED THE CONDITIONS IN THE VACANCY NOTICE AND IN APPOINTING HIM TO THE POST TO BE FILLED , AND THAT IT THEREFORE DID NOT EXCEED THE LIMITS OF THE POWER CONFERRED UPON IT .
13 SO FAR AS THE ALLEGED INADEQUACY OF REASONS GIVEN FOR THE DECISION IS CONCERNED , THE COURT HAS ALREADY STATED IN ITS JUDGMENT OF 30 OCTOBER 1974 , CITED ABOVE , ON THE ONE HAND THAT THERE IS NO NEED FOR A DECISION PROMOTING AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE REASONED AND ON THE OTHER HAND THAT , WHILST THE DUTY TO GIVE REASONS FOR A DECISION REJECTING A COMPLAINT APPLIES EVEN IN THE CASE OF A CONTESTED PROMOTION , THE REASONS