7On a number of occasions, the applicant sought to change his status from that of UKAEA employee assigned to JET to that of member of the temporary staff of the Community. In particular, he was one of the applicants in Joined Cases 271/83, 15/84, 36/84, 113/84, 158/84, 203/84 and 13/85 Ainsworth and Others v Commission and Council [1987] ECR 167, (‘the Ainsworth judgment’). He is also one of the 206 signatories of Petition No 188/90 to the European Parliament, of 22 February 1990. On three occasions (in 1986, 1989 and 1992), he was placed on reserve lists for senior scientific posts within the Community and in 1989 was offered a post as Head of Division in the thermonuclear fusion programme within the Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development (DG XII), which he had to refuse for personal reasons.
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