CERTIFICATION PROCEDURE, 2008 EXERCISE:

List of the 122 officials authorised to follow the training programme in 2009

This Administrative Notice concerns the 241 officials whose applications to the 2008 certification exercise have been pre-selected.

On 29th April 2009, the Appointing Authority adopted the list of the 122 officials authorised to take part in the 2009 training programme under the 2008 certification procedure ⁽¹⁾.

1. Response to appeals against the ranking resulting from the DGs and Services' analysis
   
   Following publication of the draft list of the 112 best-ranked pre-selected candidates (see Administrative Notice 21-2009 of 19 March 2009), pre-selected candidates who disputed the ranking obtained could make a substantiated appeal to the Joint Committee for the certification procedure.
   
   At its meeting held on 23 April 2009, 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. Final list of the 122 officials authorised to follow the training programme in 2009
   
   The final list of 122 officials authorised to follow the training programme in 2009 is published in Annex .
   
   This number exceeds the number of officials (110) to be authorised to follow the training programme as per Appointing Authority decision of 3 November 2008 (Administrative notice 43-2008 ) by, on one hand, the inclusion of all 112 candidates who reached or passed the threshold of 0,5 point and, on the other hand, the addition by the Appointing Authority of the following 10 candidates on the basis of the results of the Joint Committee's work:
    

   AFOKPA Friederike	OPOCE
   CAPEYRON Paul	DG JLS
   CIRASA Tommaso	DG SANCO
   DE GRISANTIS Vitantonio	DGT
   HAUSTRATE-ASSAM Renate	SG
   JACOBS Frans	AIDCO
   LAMINNE Katherine	DG COMM
   LOTTEFIER Dominique	DG AGRI
   PLEYTE Johanna	ESTAT
   SORIA Donatella	CAB

   The 122 officials whose names appear on the attached list are invited to consult the information below on the compulsory training programme in 2009.
    

3. The compulsory "Certification" training programme
   
   The 122 officials whose names are listed in Annex are authorised to follow the training programme to be run in 2009 by the European Administrative School (EAS), to which the Commission has delegated the definition and organisation of the inter-institutional training programme.
   
   Officials included in the list in 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.
   
   Courses and exams will take place in Brussels and Luxembourg and will be organised in English and French. A sufficient level of linguistic knowledge is essential given that no official will be allowed to follow the training programme in his/her principal language.
   
   The training programme will start at the end of May 2009 as follows:
    
   • Block 1: from 26 May to 19 June 2009 (every day except on Wednesdays 10 and 17 June and on Monday 1st June);
   • Block 2: from 21 September to 9 October 2009 (every day except on Wednesdays 23 and 30 September and on 7 October);
   • Individual study period between the 2 blocks.

   EAS shall organise information sessions for the candidates authorised to follow the training. These sessions shall take place in Brussels (5 May 2009 pm – new date!!) and Luxembourg (8 May 2009 am).
   
   You will find more information on the calendar and on the content of the training programme on the EAS web site.
   http://www.cc.cec/home/dgserv/eas/training/certification/index_en.html 
    

4. Contact details
   
   If you have any queries, you can contact ADMIN/A.6:
   Tel.: 93640 – 52871 – 93936
   E-mail: ADMIN PROCEDURE DE CERTIFICATION
   PersAdmin / Certification web site: http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/certification/index_en.html

Annex: List of the 122 officials authorised to follow the "Certification" training programme in 2009
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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ The text of the Appointing Authority decision is available on the Intacomm/PersAdmin site dedicated to the 2008 certification exercise – see http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/attestation/2008_exercise_en.html.