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"Mr President, I should first of all like to congratulate Mr Bösch on his report, to which the Commission accords a favourable response. A number of the requests contained in this have already been put into effect. For example, candidates are already allowed to take the examination questions away with them, the general evaluation criteria can be made known to those candidates who request them, the list of passes can be published in the Official Journal and the composition of the selection board may be published in the Official Journal (in the case of general public entrance examinations) or on the Commission’s web site (in the case of internal or restricted examinations).
The Commission endeavours to be as objective as possible, and I should like to make two comments on a couple of questions which have arisen in the debate. Firstly, the corrections to the examinations set by the Commission are always made anonymously. No one knows who the candidates are, since they are identified by secret codes rather than by their names. Secondly, and where languages are concerned, the examinations take place, and are marked in, the national languages, and the tests are not converted from one language to another before they are marked. The aim, therefore, is to have the maximum amount of precautions and guarantees to ensure that the examinations take place in the form which is fairest and most acceptable to everyone.
Certainly, the point which created most interest today in the debate on Mr Bösch’s report concerned what happens regarding candidates’ access to their marked examination scripts. President Prodi has already made due reference to this subject. I can now confirm something which has already appeared in the White Paper on reform of the Commission, specifically in action 29 which is about improving transparency in a way which benefits candidates and in which it is stated that ‘Finally, pursuant to the European Ombudsman’s recommendation, the Commission will allow candidates access to their corrected tests in all competitions launched after July 2002’.
Why July 2002, some of you are asking. Well, precisely because of this same concern with transparency and knowledge of the procedures that you have expressed and also because a number of administrative steps will first have to be taken if there is to be access to corrected examination scripts. What form is this correcting of examination papers to take? Who is qualified to carry it out? How and to whom is this type of procedure to be presented?
The Commission’s commitment regarding this matter is absolute and we hope that, as soon as these measures have been implemented, they will be applied generally.
Finally, the Commission can obviously make a commitment on its own behalf. With regard to other institutions, it is they themselves who will decide whether the procedures proposed in this report or in the requests by the Ombudsman are adopted."@en1
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