Evelyne Delauche v. Commission, 16 December 1987.
The applicant worked for the European Communities in a position ranked Grade A4.  She complained to the Commission when a man who had reached the grade of A4 four years after she had was appointed to a grade A3 position for which she had applied.  She argued that, when there were several candidates acknowledged to be equally suitable for a position and one sex was considerably underrepresented in positions of that grade, preference should be given to a candidate of the underrepresented sex.  She also argued that reasons should be given for the decision not to appoint a woman to the position.  The Court rejected both arguments.  It ruled that it had not been shown that both applicants were equally qualified for the position and that there was no duty to give a reason for not appointing a woman to a position.  It also pointed out that the man who had been appointed to the position was better qualified, as evidenced by reports over a 12-year period relating to his administrative and management abilities.
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