65As regards, first of all, the objection of inadmissibility raised by the Commission against the plea in law in its entirety, on the ground that the applicants had not contested the competition notice in good time, it need only be pointed out, in order to reject that objection, that, in an action against a decision of a selection board in a competition, an applicant is entitled to rely on irregularities occurring in the course of the competition, even if the origin of those irregularities may be found in the wording of the competition notice itself (see, to that effect, the judgment of 11 August 1995 in Case C‑448/93 P Commission v Noonan, paragraph 17). As long as the applicants’ applications had not been rejected by the selection board, they could not be sure whether they had an interest in bringing proceedings against the competition notice, so that they cannot be criticised for not having contested the competition notice within the time-limits provided for in Articles 90 and 91 of the Staff Regulations.
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