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CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE - 2005

DRAFT LIST OF PRE-SELECTED OFFICIALS

This Administrative Notice concerns B* officials who have applied for the 2005 certification procedure.

Following the call for applications published in Administrative Notice No 82-2005, 1189 applications have been registered.

The procedure for selecting officials to follow the training programme offered by the European Administrative School has two stages:

  • a pre-selection stage; and
     
  • a second stage in which pre-selected officials are classified in order of priority.

The draft list of officials who have submitted an application and have been pre-selected (1st phase) is published in Annex II .

If you are involved in this procedure, you are strongly advised to study the text in Annex I so as to gain a complete understanding of the pre-selection criteria, the method used to determine the pre-selection of candidates, and ways of appealing against the decision.

ANNEX I

THE CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE

A new procedure has been introduced under the Staff Regulations to enable category B* officials of grade 5 or above to be appointed to category A* posts, as long as they have been selected for and successfully completed a compulsory training programme.

The certification procedure replaces the internal competitions for transfer from category B* to A*. It is organised annually, starting in 2005.

More information is available at the following web page: http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/promotions/cdr/certification_2_fr.html
The procedure for selecting officials to follow the training programme offered by the European Administrative School has two stages: a pre-selection stage and a second stage in which pre-selected officials are classified in order of priority.

Pre-selection criteria

As a reminder, the pre-selection criteria as defined by the Commission Decision of 22 June 2005 are as follows:

  • The candidate’s career development report for 2004 must state that he or she has the potential required to take on the functions of an administrator.
     
  • The candidate must have seniority in grade 5 or above of at least three years if he holds a university diploma within the meaning of Article 5(3)(b)(i) of the Staff Regulations, or at least six years if he does not. The minimum seniority must have been acquired by 31 December of the year in which the certification procedure is launched. Account shall be taken of the seniority acquired as a temporary official in grade 5 or above provided that there was no break between periods of service as a temporary official and as a permanent official.

These two criteria must both be fulfilled.
 

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES

Candidates’ attention is drawn to the fact that fulfilment of the pre-selection criteria is assessed on the basis of information declared by the candidate in his/her application form. At this stage of the procedure, the information has not yet been checked.

As indicated in Administrative Notice No 82-2005, the declarations made by officials authorised to follow the compulsory training programme in their application forms will be systematically cross-checked against their personal files and attestations of the experience obtained between 1 October 1999 and 30 September 2005 in the priority areas.

If the information in the attestations does not correspond to the documents in the personal file, or if the personal file is incomplete, the application will be deemed ineligible.

The annexed list is therefore published subject to completion of the checks mentioned above.


Method used to determine the pre-selection of candidates

Once they have signed their application form, the officials can access for the pre-selection stage their “certification” file via the Sysper2 system (click on “Calculations”, then “Valorization” and “Pre-selection”), check how the information they declared in the application form has been taken into account and view the result.

Appeals before the joint certification committee

If you wish to dispute the fact that your application has not been pre-selected, you must launch an appeal before the joint certification committee within ten working days of the publication of this Administrative Notice.

The appeal should be introduced into your certification file via the “Sysper2” system. You must give reasons for your appeal, inserting your arguments in the empty text box once you have clicked the button “Aller en appel/Launch an appeal”; you will also need to attach any official documents in support of your appeal (click on “Annexes”)(1) .

If you are prevented from accessing the “Sysper2” software over an extended period of time, you can send your appeal in writing to the following address:

European Commission
Unit ADMIN A/6 Appeals – Certification Procedure
MO 34 5/15
B-1049 Brussels

A written appeal must be sent within ten working days, with the postmark providing evidence of this.

Once the joint certification committee has considered the appeals, the appointing authority will publish the list of pre-selected officials, including any modifications.

Footnotes

(1) Sysper2 is not a word processing tool. We therefore recommend that you draft your appeal in Word and then cut and paste the text into Sysper2 in the field intended for your appeal.

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   Author: ADMIN A6