CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE, 2007 EXERCISE:

List of successful officials

This administrative notice concerns

• the AST officials with no career restriction who were authorised to take part in the 2008 obligatory training programme under the 2007 certification exercise;
   
• the AST officials with no career restriction who were authorised to take part in the 2006 obligatory training programme under the 2005 certification exercise and who re-sat in 2008 the tests they failed in 2006;
   
• the AST officials with no career restriction who were authorised to take part in the 2007 obligatory training programme under the 2006 certification exercise and who re-sat in 2008 the tests they failed in 2007.

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) and the European Administrative School (EAS) have drawn up the list in annex containing the names of:

• the officials who have successfully completed the certification training programme held in 2008;
   
• the officials who successfully re-sat in 2008 the tests they failed in 2006 and/or in 2007.

Officials who, in 2008:

• unsuccessfully followed the certification training programme,
   
• did not re-sit the tests they failed in 2006 and/or in 2007,
   
• unsuccessfully re-sat the tests they failed in 2006 and/or 2007,

are authorised to re-sit the test(s) they failed. They will be informed of the arrangements by the EAS. If they pass the tests, they too will be free to apply for vacant posts in function group AD.
As mentioned in Article 8, paragraph 3, of the general provisions for implementing (GIPs) Article 45a of the Staff Regulations, adopted on 20/11/2007 (see AN 54-2007), officials authorised to follow the training programme under the 2007 certification exercise are allowed to re-sit twice the tests they failed provided they still fulfil the conditions to apply for certification.

Officials whose names appear on the list attached (“List of officials who have passed the tests", also referred to as "certifiés") are invited to read the information provided below.

HOW AM I TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CERTIFICATION?

In order to take advantage of the certification, officials who have been successful in the tests have to apply for vacant posts in the AD function group.

Which jobs can I apply for?

• Officials who have passed the tests are free to apply for vacant AD posts corresponding to their grade and published pursuant to Article 29, paragraph 1 (a)(ii) of the Staff Regulations.
   
• The certification procedure and the training programme are interinstitutional. Therefore, officials are allowed to apply for AD posts in any European institution.

Is the authorisation to apply subject to any time limit?

• The authorisation to apply for vacant AD posts is not subject to any time-limit.
   
• The number of officials who have passed the certification tests and are appointed to posts in function group AD is not to exceed 20% of the total number of appointments made to AD posts. A check is to be made every five years, starting from 2010.

What effects will there be on my career?

• Appointment to an AD post will not affect the official’s grade or step: this is a sideways transition (see Article 45a(3) of the Staff Regulations).
   
• Seniority in step is not lost, but seniority in grade is (seniority in the AD grade is starting on the date of appointment in the AD function group).
   
• The multiplication factor is not affected.
   
• This is not a promotion within the meaning of Article 45 of the Staff Regulations, and successful officials who have not yet had a first promotion since their recruitment continue to be required to demonstrate their ability to work in a third language (Article 45(2)).
   
• As the official is moving from the AST function group to the AD function group, the “rucksack” ("sac à dos") is cancelled with the appointment as an administrator⁽¹⁾. Any possibility of promotion as AST is lost on the day of nomination in the AD function group.
   
• As from 2008, in the context of the implementation of the new appraisal and promotion system in 2009, only one evaluation shall be established for the year in which the official was nominated AD. On this basis, the official shall receive promotion points for the relevant year, with no pro rata according to the period AST/AD.

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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ See Article 3(2) of Annex I of the Commission Decision of 18/06/2008 on the general provisions for implementing Article 45 of the Staff Regulations : “Where an official of the AST function group is appointed to a post in the AD function group (change of function group) promotion points accumulated during the preceeding promotion exercises shall be cancelled.”