2005 CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE

LIST OF THE 110 OFFICIALS AUTHORISED TO FOLLOW THE TRAINING PROGRAMME

This Administrative Notice concerns B* officials whose applications have been pre-selected under the certification procedure.

On 17th March 2006 the Appointing Authority adopted the list of the 110 officials authorised to take part in the training programme under the 2005 certification procedure.

That list is published in Annex 1.

Officials whose names appear on the list are invited to consult the information below on the compulsory training programme.

For further information on the response to appeals against the total points obtained, on the complaints procedure and on the procedure used to draw up the definitive list of the 110 officials authorised to follow the training programme, please see Annex 2.

COMPULSORY TRAINING PROGRAMME

The 110 officials whose names are listed in the Annex are authorised to follow the training programme to be run in 2006 by the European Administrative School (EAS), to which the Commission has delegated the design and organisation of the inter-institutional training programme. This training comprises a general module and a specific module.

In order to enable officials working in places other than Brussels and Luxembourg and officials working part-time to participate, the EAS has organised the common core in a single block of around five weeks starting 29 May 2006 ⁽¹⁾ and the specific modules in another block of 10-12 days during the first half of October 2006.

The choice of specific module will be established following a discussion involving the official, his/her reporting officer and the Head of the Human Resources Unit of the Directorate-General to which the official is assigned. Account will be taken of the priority field selected by officials in their application for the certification procedure. Decisions concerning specific module choices will be forwarded to the EAS, which will contact the officials.

For further details please consult the EAS website: http://www.cc.cec/home/dgserv/eas/index_en.html

Officials included in the list in the Annex who take parental leave under Article 42a of the Staff Regulations, family leave under Article 42b or maternity leave under Article 58, before or during the period of the training programme, will be authorised, if they so wish, to postpone the training until the following year without having to reapply.

ANNEX 1

LIST OF THE 110 OFFICIALS AUTHORISED TO FOLLOW THE TRAINING PROGRAMME

ANNEX 2

RESPONSE TO APPEALS AGAINST THE TOTAL POINTS OBTAINED

REMINDER CONCERNING THE PROCEDURE FOR DRAWING UP THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE 110 OFFICIALS AUTHORISED TO FOLLOW THE TRAINING PROGRAMME

1. Response to appeals against the total points obtained
   
   Following publication of the list of officials best placed in each of the seven priority fields selected by the Appointing Authority (see Administrative Notice No 10-2006 of 7 February 2006), officials admitted to participate in the 2005 certification procedure who disputed the total points obtained had ten working days to make a substantiated appeal to the Joint Certification Committee.
   
   At its meeting held on 15 March 2006 the Joint Committee issued an opinion on each of the appeals lodged.
   
   Officials who appealed may consult their certification file in Sysper 2 to see the response of the Appointing Authority to their appeal. This information is accessible by clicking on the "Summary" tab under "File history".
   
   Article 90(2) of the Staff Regulations permits a complaint to be made against the decision of the Appointing Authority. How to do this is explained at: http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/appeals/complaints/index_en.html
    
2. Reminder concerning the procedure for drawing up the definitive list of the 110 officials authorised to follow the training programme
   
   In accordance with the Appointing Authority’s decision of 17 October 2005 http://www.cc.cec/guide/publications/infoadm/2005/ia05078_en.html, the list of the 110 officials authorised to take part in the training programme should be drawn up as follows:
    
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "external communication policy";
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "compliance with Community law and dealing with infringements";
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "budget, finance and contracts";
   • the 20 best placed officials who chose the field "management of programmes and projects";
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "audit";
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "human resources management";
   • the 15 best placed officials who chose the field "information technology".

   In order to comply with this breakdown, the Joint Committee considered the draft list of best placed officials published in each of the seven priority fields. It sent the Appointing Authority a proposal on deciding between ex-aequo officials.
   
   As stated in the Appointing Authority’s decision of 17 October 2005, to do this account was taken firstly of seniority in category, and then, if this was equal, the principle of equal opportunities. The Appointing Authority accepted the proposal of the Joint Committee. 

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 Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Apart from the "Budget/decision-making" module, which will follow the budgetary procedure in real time insofar as possible (all or part of this module will be dispensed by means of distance-learning techniques in the case of staff outside Brussels and Luxembourg).