THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE, THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE 1 OF ANNEX III, THE OBJECTIVE OF WHICH IT REALIZED BY PRECLUDING THE ELIMINATION OF CANDIDATES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE .
61 IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT NEITHER AT THE STAGE OF ADMISSION TO THE TESTS, NOR AT ANY STAGE IN THE PROCEDURE OF THE COMPETITION OR THE SUBSEQUENT PROCEDURES OF PROMOTION, HAS AN OFFICIAL BEEN EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE .
62 THE SUBMISSION MUST THEREFORE BE REJECTED .
63 FOLLOWING THE PRODUCTION, DURING THE ORAL PROCEDURE, OF THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF 22 JULY 1972, AT WHICH THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPETITIONS IN QUESTION WERE BEING CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION, THE APPLICANTS PUT FORWARD ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS AMONG WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISCERN THREE NEW SUBMISSIONS .
64 THEY STATE THAT AT THE MEETING REFERENCE IS MADE TO SIX COMPETITIONS WHEREAS ONLY FIVE WERE ORGANIZED, THAT IT INDICATES THAT THE COMPETITIONS WERE TO BE RESERVED FOR OFFICIALS OF CATEGORY B WHEREAS OFFICIALS OF THE LA SERVICE TOOK PART, AND FINALLY THAT EACH CANDIDATE WAS TO HAVE A CARD GIVING HIS PARTICULARS WHICH WAS TO BE MADE OUT BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND NOT BY THE CANDIDATES, AS WAS THE CASE .
65 ACCORDING TO THE APPLICANTS THIS INVOLVED IRREGULARITIES VITIATING THE LEGALITY OF THE COMPETITIONS IN QUESTION .
66 WITHOUT DEALING WITH THE QUESTION OF WHETHER, AT THIS STAGE OF THE PROCEDURE, THE PRODUCTION OF NEW SUBMISSIONS IS ADMISSIBLE, IT IS RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE TO OBSERVE THAT THE DECISION ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPETITION TAKES ITS LEGAL AND FINAL FORM FROM THE NOTICES OF COMPETITION BROUGHT TO THE NOTICE OF THE PERSONNEL .
67 THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE COMPETENT BODY AS THEY APPEAR FROM THE MINUTES CANNOT OVERRIDE THE CLEAR WORDING OF THE DECISION IN QUESTION UNLESS THEY OBVIOUSLY SHOW THAT THE FORMAL DECISION IS NOT IN ACCORD WITH WHAT WAS IN FACT LAID DOWN AT THE END OF THE DELIBERATIONS .
68 THIS IS NOT SO IN THE PRESENT CASE .
69 THE FILE SHOWS THAT THE FACT SIX COMPETITIONS WERE PROVIDED FOR AND ONLY FIVE ORGANIZED AROSE BECAUSE COMPETITION COM/A/268 COMBINED TESTS RELATING ON THE ONE HAND TO AGRICULTURAL SUBJECTS AND ON THE OTHER HAND TO DATA PROCESSING .
70 ALTHOUGH THIS FACT DOES NOT REVEAL A PUNCTILIOUS METHOD OF PROCEEDING, IT IS NEVERTHELESS IN NO WAY SUCH AS TO VITIATE THE LEGALITY OF THE ACTS CHALLENGED .
71 FURTHER, ALTHOUGH IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT THE COMPETITIONS IN QUESTION WERE CERTAINLY INTENDED TO ENABLE OFFICIALS IN CATEGORY B TO ADVANCE TO CATEGORY A, NEITHER THE WORDING NOR THE SPIRIT OF THE MINUTES PROVIDES ANY BASIS FOR THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY WERE TO BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO OFFICIALS IN THIS CATEGORY .
72 ON THE CONTRARY, GIVEN THE FACT OF PROVIDING A GENERAL RESERVE, HAVING REGARD TO THE ARRIVAL OF OFFICIALS FROM THE NEW MEMBER STATES, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE OFFICIALS OF OTHER CATEGORIES, FULFILLING THE CONDITIONS OF ADMISSIBILITY, WOULD HAVE BEEN OBJECTIONABLE .
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