Traduction de «The Canadian Guide to Natural Selection » (Anglais → Français) :

This range of vegetation not only provides food for the adult animals but is also a decisive factor, since it not only influences, by natural selection, the characteristics of the animals which overcome the conditions and which manage to survive, breed and feed their young in such difficult conditions, as is the case of the Serpentina goats and their offspring, but is also a factor in changing the characteristics of the milk in accordance with the time of the year.

By letter received by the Registry of the Tribunal on 19 February 2013, the Commission sent the Tribunal a general guide containing instructions for examiners, a detailed guide containing instructions regarding the substance of the case study for each of the different versions, entitled ‘legal manual’, and the marking profile in the software supplied to examiners/members of the selection board for assessing the competenci ...[+++]es of the candidates during the case study.

Its chemical composition is a perfect balance of volatile oils with sulphur compounds, enzymes, vitamin B, mineral salts and flavonoids. Another no less important characteristic is the specific genetic identity, demonstrated through DNA amplification techniques and the fruit of a natural selection process effected by applying selection methods handed down from generation to generation.

The soil and climatic conditions of the area, and the work of numerous generations of olive growers, have resulted in the natural selection of the Cornicabra variety, the best adapted to the area and the only one used in the production of ‘Montes de Toledo’ olive oil.

For the purposes of the present appeal, it must first be stated that the Civil Service Tribunal recalled that any decision relating to a specific individual which is taken under the Staff Regulations and adversely affects that person must state the reasons on which it is based, on the one hand, to enable the competent court to review the legality of the decision and, on the other, to provide the person concerned with the information necessary to allow him to ascertain whether or not the decision is well founded and to enable him to decide whether to bring an action. It added, however, referring to Case C‑254/95 P Parliament v Innamorati ...[+++][1996] ECR I‑3423, paragraphs 24 to 28, that, as far as concerns decisions taken by a selection board in a competition, the obligation to state reasons must be reconciled with observance of the secrecy surrounding the proceedings of selection boards by virtue of Article 6 of Annex III to the Staff Regulations, secrecy which was instituted with a view to guaranteeing the independence of selection boards and the objectivity of their proceedings. Thus, observance of this secrecy precludes both disclosure of the attitudes adopted by individual members of selection boards and disclosure of any factors relating to individual or comparative assessments of candidates and that the obligation to state the reasons on which decisions of a selection board in a competition are based must take account of the nature of the proceedings concerned, which, at the stage of examination of the abilities of the candidates, are primarily comparative in character and accordingly covered by the secrecy inherent in those proceedings (paragraphs 30 and 31 of the judgment under appeal).

Establishment of national priorities and project selection procedures: the priorities for implementing Tempus are the result of a consultation procedure between the Commission and the authorities in each partner country; the priorities for 1994-95 were established in the first half of 1993 and published in the Applicants' guide; projects are selected, within the limits of the Tempus share of the PHARE budget for each partner country, under a codecision procedure in which ...[+++] the merits of the projects are assessed by the Commission and the national authorities.