13By decision of 5 February 2013 (‘the first contested decision’), the Secretariat-General refused the confirmatory application in procedure Gestdem 2012/3258. The Secretariat-General argued first of all that the confirmatory application was inadmissible with regard to the indication of the level of difficulty of each question set for each candidate, since that aspect was not covered by the initial application. The Secretariat-General went on to confirm, in essence, EPSO’s view that the application was in fact intended to procure access to a document that did not exist, the compilation of the requested table involving not only the extraction of information on tens of thousands of relevant tests from different databases but also relating that information to other databases, such as the general database of questions. Even if the application for access could be interpreted as being intended to obtain individual statements of results achieved by each of the candidates in anonymised form, such a request would be disproportionate given the administrative workload it would entail.
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