AND TRANSLATOR AS DEFINED IN ANNEX I A TO THE STAFF REGULATIONS . THE CAREER BRACKET OF ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR PREVIOUSLY COVERING GRADES L/A 8 AND L/A 7 WAS RESTRICTED TO GRADE L/A 8 AND THE CAREER BRACKET OF TRANSLATOR WHICH PREVIOUSLY COVERED GRADES L/A 6 AND L/A 5 HENCEFORTH COVERED GRADES L/A 7 AND L/A 6 .
4 THE APPLICANT HAD 11 YEARS ' PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE . THAT EXPERIENCE SATISFIED THE CONDITIONS WHICH , PURSUANT TO THE COMMISSION DECISION ON THE CRITERIA APPLICABLE TO CLASSIFICATION IN GRADE AND STEP UPON RECRUITMENT , WOULD , PRIOR TO THE ABOVE-MENTIONED REORGANIZATION OF THE CAREER BRACKETS , HAVE JUSTIFIED CLASSIFICATION IN L/A 7 , STEP 3 , OF THE FORMER CAREER BRACKET OF ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR .
5 AFTER BECOMING AWARE OF THE NEW CRITERIA FOR GRADING ADOPTED AFTER THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CAREER BRACKETS THE APPLICANT REQUESTED THE APOINTING AUTHORITY TO AMEND HER GRADE AND STEP AND TO ASSIGN HER TO GRADE L/A 6 , STEP 3 , WHICH IN THE CAREER BRACKET OF TRANSLATOR WOULD HAVE CORRESPONDED TO HER EXPERIENCE ACCORDING TO THE NEW CRITERIA . THAT REQUEST WAS REJECTED AND A COMPLAINT UNDER ARTICLE 90 ( 2 ) OF THE STAFF REGULATIONS DID NOT RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN THE PERIOD PROVIDED THEREBY , AND THE APPLICANT THEREUPON BROUGHT THE PRESENT ACTION .
6 THE APPLICANT ALLEGES THAT IN APPOINTING HER TO A POST IN A NEW CAREER BRACKET OF TRANSLATOR THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY RECOGNIZED THAT SHE POSSESSED THE QUALIFICATIONS AND MUST THEREFORE APPLY TO HER THE CRITERIA FOR AN APPOINTMENT IN THAT CAREER BRACKET WHICH WERE IN FORCE WHEN SHE WAS RECRUITED , THAT IS TO SAY AS AMENDED BY THE COMMISSION AFTER THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CAREER BRACKETS .
7 IN ANSWER THE COMMISSION STATES THAT THE APPLICANT HAD BEEN APPOINTED FOLLOWING A COMPETITION FOR ASSISTANT TRANSLATORS , THAT IS , AT A LOWER LEVEL THAN COMPETITIONS FOR TRANSLATORS AND THAT GRADE L/A 7 AS TRANSLATOR HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO HER AND TO OTHER APPLICANTS IN THE SAME COMPETITION APPOINTED AFTER 2 MAY 1978 ONLY IN ORDER NOT TO DISAPPOINT THEIR LEGITIMATE HOPES OF OBTAINING AN APPOINTMENT IN GRADE L/A 7 FOR WHICH THEY SATISFIED THE CONDITIONS IN THE CAREER BRACKET OF ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR AT THE TIME OF THE COMPETITION .
8 IT MUST BE OBSERVED THAT REGULATION NO 912/78 PROVIDED NO TRANSITIONAL PROVISION AND ABOLISHED WITH EFFECT FROM ITS ENTRY INTO FORCE GRADE L/A 7 IN THE CAREER BRACKET OF ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR . THAT ABOLITION CAUSED CERTAIN TRANSITIONAL PROBLEMS WHICH IT WAS FOR THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY TO RESOLVE IN THE ABSENCE OF APPROPRIATE PROVISIONS IN THE REGULATION .
9 IN THIS CASE THE APPLICANTS WHO HAD TAKEN PART IN A COMPETITION BEFORE THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CAREER BRACKETS MIGHT LEGITIMATELY HOPE TO BE APPOINTED IN THE HIGHER GRADE OF THE FORMER CAREER BRACKET OF ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR IF THEY SATISFIED THE CONDITIONS . THE COMMISSION TOOK ACCOUNT THEREOF IN ASSIGNING THE APPLICANTS APPOINTED AFTER THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF REGULATION