33However, it should be held that the fact that she did not pass an administrative competition does not mean that the applicant in the main proceedings was, at the time she was hired permanently, not in a comparable situation to that of career civil servants, given that the conditions set by the national procedure for recruitment based on qualifications are specifically intended to enable fixed-term workers, whose professional experience is such that their situation may be viewed in the same way as that of career civil servants, to be admitted to the permanent staff of the civil service (see, to that effect, judgment of 18 October 2012, Valenza and Others, C‑302/11 to C‑305/11, EU:C:2012:646, paragraph 45).
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