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The Tribunal finds that the mere fact that the Applicant was not invited to a competencybased interview following the written assessment did not give rise to an administrative decision, and that such a step of the selection process may only be challenged in the context of an application against a specific decision with clear and direct legal consequences on the Applicant, such as the final selection decision. The Tribunal has accepted in the past that certain intermediate decisions in a selection process—such as when a candidate is found not suitable/ineligible for a given post— constitute administrative decisions that can be challenged without having to wait for the finalization of a recruitment. The Applicant’s case, however, is distinguishable from these precedents. At the latest, the Applicant became aware of his non-selection on 1 August 2018, when the successful candidate assumed functions, and there is no documentary evidence that the Applicant requested management evaluation of his non-selection, which was a mandatory first step to contest the outcome of the recruitment process. Accordingly, the Tribunal finds the application inadmissible and rejects it in its entirety.