SUBJECT CHOSEN BY THEM FROM THEIR AREA OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE . THE APPLICANTS, WHO WERE GRADUATES AND WERE THEREFORE EXEMPT FROM THE DISSERTATION REQUIREMENT, CANNOT LEGITIMATELY ARGUE THAT UNLIKE THEIR COMPETITORS WHO WERE NOT GRADUATES THEY WERE OBLIGED TO DEAL WITH SUBJECTS FAR REMOVED FROM THEIR KNOWLEDGE .
22 IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES THE CANDIDATES HOLDING A UNIVERSITY DEGREE OR A DIPLOMA FROM A COMPARABLE ESTABLISHMENT CANNOT BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN PLACED AT A DISADVANTAGE BY THE NATURE OF THE PROCEDURES OR BY THEIR APPLICATION, AND THIS SUBMISSION MUST THEREFORE BE DISMISSED .
IRREGULARITY IN THE CONDUCT OF THE INTERVIEW
23 THE APPLICANTS MAINTAIN THAT THE INTERVIEW WHICH LASTED A QUARTER OF AN HOUR WAS OF TOO GENERAL A NATURE AND WAS TOO SHORT .
24 THE INTERVIEW OF A GENERAL NATURE WHICH TOOK PLACE UNDER IDENTICAL CONDITIONS FOR BOTH CATEGORIES OF CANDIDATES FOLLOWED A TALK BY THE CANDIDATE AND AN INTERVIEW OF A TECHNICAL NATURE, EITHER ON THE DISSERTATION SUBMITTED BY THE CANDIDATE OR ON THE SUBJECT CHOSEN BY HIM WITHIN AN AREA OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE . THERE WAS NOTHING TO PRECLUDE THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FROM ADDING A WIDER-RANGING INTERVIEW DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE CANDIDATES' GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, IN PARTICULAR IN THE SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL FIELD, SINCE SUCH KNOWLEDGE WAS NECESSARY FOR CARRYING OUT THE DUTIES TO WHICH THE CANDIDATES ASPIRED .
25 THERE IS NOTHING IN THE DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE COURT TO INDICATE THAT THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED OR THE QUESTIONS RAISED WERE LIKELY TO PREJUDICE PARTICULAR CANDIDATES .
26 THE APPLICANTS ALSO ARGUE THAT A RECORD SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT OF EACH INTERVIEW . IN THIS RESPECT IT IS SUFFICIENT TO OBSERVE THAT THE PROCEDURES DID NOT PROVIDE FOR THAT FORMALITY AND, IN THE LIGHT OF ALL THE DOCUMENTS PLACED ON THE FILES, THE ABSENCE OF SUCH A RECORD COULD NOT PREJUDICE THE CANDIDATES' INTERESTS OR IMPEDE THE COURT' S REVIEW OF THE SELECTION PROCEDURE .
27 THIS SUBMISSION MUST THEREFORE BE DISMISSED .
THE FAILURE OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO OBSERVE THE DATES FIXED IN THE "NOTICE TO OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF IN THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES - CATEGORY B" OF 24 JUNE 1983
28 IN ITS NOTICE TO THE OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF CONCERNED SETTING OUT THE PROCEDURES THE COMMISSION ANNOUNCED THAT THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WOULD "PROBABLY" MEET "TOWARDS THE END OF OCTOBER/BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER 1983" AND WOULD COMPLETE ITS WORK "BY DECEMBER 1984 ". THE APPLICANTS POINT OUT THAT THIS TIMETABLE WAS NOT ADHERED TO .
29 IT IS APPARENT EVEN FROM THE NOTICE ITSELF THAT THE DATES ANNOUNCED WERE ONLY FOR GUIDANCE . FAILURE TO OBSERVE THEM CANNOT THEREFORE IMPUGN THE LEGALITY OF THE DECISIONS CHALLENGED .
FAILURE OF THE COMMITTEE' S REPORT ON ITS WORK TO INDICATE HOW THE MARKS OF THE VARIOUS CANDIDATES WERE CALCULATED
30 THE APPLICANTS MAINTAIN THAT THE REPORT DRAWN UP BY THE COMMITTEE DOES NOT INDICATE HOW THE MARKS AWARDED TO THE VARIOUS CANDIDATES WERE DECIDED .
31 THE COURT'