35However, it is clear from the case-law cited in paragraph 31 of this judgment that, even where the selection board is obliged to provide, initially, only summary reasons, as is the case in a competition with a large number of participants, those reasons must include an indication of the selection criteria. Thus, the selection criteria constitute a minimum of information which must in any event be provided to candidates, at the latest at the same time as the results of the competition concerned. In the present case, those criteria were not even stated in the reply to the request for review submitted by Mr Di Bernardo. Knowledge of those criteria was the only way for the person concerned to understand how the selection board of the open competition in question came to the conclusion that the length of his relevant professional experience was less than 3 years. In those circumstances, it cannot be claimed that Mr Di Bernardo’s interest in obtaining the communication was overestimated in the judgment under appeal.
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