VARIOUS ABILITIES WHICH THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT DUTIES REQUIRES .
30 NO PURPOSE IS SERVED BY THE APPLICANTS, CITING IN SUPPORT OF THEIR POINT OF VIEW THAT IT WAS IN TRUTH A SINGLE COMPETITION, THE FACT THAT IN THE STAFF COURIER NO 216, OF 26 JUNE 1972, THE COMMISSION PUBLISHED A SINGLE LIST OF SUITABLE CANDIDATES COMPRISING ALL THE CANDIDATES .
31 THIS PUBLICATION COMPRISES THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL THE CANDIDATES WHO CONSTITUTE THE RESERVE FOR FUTURE RECRUITMENT TO THE COMPILATION OF WHICH EACH OF THE DIFFERENT COMPETITIONS HAD TO CONTRIBUTE, BUT BESIDE THE NAME OF EACH OFFICIAL THERE IS NOTED THE COMPETITION IN WHICH HE TOOK PART AND, MOREOVER, LISTS OF SUITABLE CANDIDATES IN RELATION TO EACH COMPETITION WERE TRANSMITTED BY THE SELECTION BOARDS TO THE COMMISSION .
32 SINCE, THEREFORE, IT IS ESTABLISHED IN THE PRESENT CASE THAT THERE WERE SEPARATE COMPETITIONS, THE TESTS FOR WHICH WERE JUDGED BY SEPARATE SELECTION BOARDS, THE APPLICANTS CANNOT COMPLAIN OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CONDITIONS OF THE COMPETITION IN WHICH EACH OF THEM PARTICIPATED AND THE OTHERS .
33 THEIR INDICATION OF EVIDENCE IN THIS RESPECT MUST THEREFORE BE REJECTED AS IRRELEVANT TO THE CASE .
34 THE APPLICANTS ALLEGE IN THE SECOND PLACE THAT THE COMPETITIONS WERE CONCEIVED AND ORGANIZED, NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SERVICE, BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING CERTAIN SPECIFIC CANDIDATES .
35 IN SPITE OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS ALLEGATION, THERE HAS BEEN NO EVIDENCE NOR INDICATION OF EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF IT AND THEREFORE IT MUST BE REJECTED .
36 THE APPLICANTS FURTHER STATE THAT THE COMPETITIONS ARE VITIATED BY MISUSE OF POWERS IN THAT, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE CONCEIVED AS 'PROMOTION COMPETITIONS' MAINLY TO OPEN ADMISSION TO CATEGORY A FOR OFFICIALS OF CATEGORY B, PRESSURE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY EXERTED ON THE SELECTION BOARDS TO INDUCE THEM TO BE MORE SEVERE SO AS TO RESTRICT THE NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AND THUS MAKE POSSIBLE A LARGER RECRUITMENT BY MEANS OF EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS .
37 THE PROVISION OFRESERVES FOR FUTURE RECRUITMENT IS A FACTOR IN THE RECRUITMENT POLICY OF THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY .
38 IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT THE COMMISSION, BEFORE THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY BY THE ACCESSION OF THE NEW MEMBER STATES, INTENDED BY THIS MEANS TO OPEN UP TO EXPERIENCED OFFICIALS IN CATEGORY B WHO GAVE PROOF OF THEIR ABILITY, ACCESS TO POSTS IN CATEGORY A, THE NUMBER OF WHICH WAS ABOUT TO BE INCREASED .
39 HOWEVER, FROM 22 JULY 1971, PARALLEL WITH THE ORGANIZATION OF INTERNAL COMPETITIONS IN OCTOBER 1971, IT HAD PROVIDED FOR THE ORGANIZATION BEFORE THE END OF 1971 OF EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FILLING THE SAME POSTS .
40 HAVING DECIDED TO COMBINE THE TWO METHODS FOR THE ADDITIONAL RECRUITMENTS IN CATEGORY A, IN THE LIGHT OF THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY, THE COMMISSION WAS JUSTIFIED IN ASKING THE SELECTION BOARDS TO HAVE REGARD, IN THEIR ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, TO THE NATURE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RECRUITMENT ENVISAGED, WHILE NEVERTHELESS RESPECTING THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SAID SELECTION