ATTESTATION, 2006 EXERCISE

DRAFT LIST OF ADMITTED OFFICIALS

• Draft list of officials whose applications are considered admitted
• Method used to decide on admission
• Appeals before the Joint committee for the attestation procedure

Following the call for applications for the 2006 exercise of the attestation procedure, issued by means of Administrative Notice No 60-2006, 1747 signed applications were registered. The 1747 officials who applied for the 2006 attestation exercise are invited to read what follows.

1. Draft list of officials whose applications are considered admitted
   
   The draft list of 1446 officials whose applications are considered admitted is given in annex . This draft list was submitted to the Joint committee for the attestation procedure.
   
   Admitted applicants are those who meet each of the four following criteria:
    
   1. A minimum seniority in career streams C/C* or D/D* (or in a higher category) of at least 5 years as at 16 January 2007.
       
   2. A level of education at least equal to "a level of post-secondary education attested by a diploma" (higher non-university degree or short university cycle of a legal duration of at least 2 years). Additional professional experience within or outside the Institutions can be used to count towards a lower level of education.
       
   3. The potential to perform "Administrative assistant" functions must have been positively assessed under the "potential" heading completed in a career development report (CDR) covering at least 6 months of the year 2005.
       
   4. The level of performance should not be assessed as inadequate or insufficient in the annual 2005 CDR.
       
   As a reminder, the admission criteria are spelled out in Article 5(1) of the Commission Decision of 29 November 2006 and the detailed rules for applying the admission criteria for the 2006 attestation exercise are set out in the Appointing authority decision of 14 December 2006.
    

   WARNING TO APPLICANTS You should note that admission has been decided on the basis of the information given in your application form. At this stage in the procedure, that information has not yet been checked. As stated under point 3.4 of the call for applications, DG ADMIN will systematically check the information provided by all applicants on the final list of admitted applicants, after the publication of the final list and at the latest when the request for attestation are processed. If the application information does not tally with the documents in the personal file, attestation will not be granted.

   
   
2. Method used to decide on admission
   
   Any candidate who has signed his/her application form can check how the information declared in his/her application form has been taken into account and what the outcome is. This information is available in his/her "attestation" application file in Sysper2, under "Calculations", tabs "Valorisation " and "Admission").
    
3. Appeals before the Joint committee for the attestation procedure
   
   Officials who have applied and believe they meet the criteria set out in paragraph 1 above but who are not included on the list in annex may appeal to the Joint committee for the attestation procedure within ten working days of publication of this administrative notice.
   
   The appeal must be lodged via your attestation file in Sysper2 and must be substantiated: after clicking on “launch an appeal” a field appears in which you can write as much as you like; you must attach documents in support of your appeal by clicking on “Attachments”.⁽¹⁾
   
   If you are unable to access Sysper2 for some reason, you may send a substantiated appeal by letter to:

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

   The letter must be sent by the deadline of 10 working days referred to above, the postmark serving as proof of the sending date.
   
   After the Joint committee has examined any appeals received, the appointing authority will publish the final list – amended if necessary – of the officials admitted to the 2006 exercise of the attestation procedure.

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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Since Sysper2 is not a word processing system, we advise you to draft the text of your appeal in Word and then copy and paste it into the Sysper2 field provided.