ATTESTATION PROCEDURE, 2009 EXERCISE:

Admission criteria
 

The attestation procedure allows officials in the assistants' function group (AST) who are currently in the C (AST1-7) and D (AST1-5) career streams to access the career stream with no restriction and become members of the assistants' function group (hereinafter “function group AST”) with prospects of promotion to grade AST11. This procedure was introduced by Article 10(3) of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations.

Officials from the assistants' function group (AST) who apply for the attestation procedure will be admitted provided they meet each of the four criteria relating to seniority, level of education (taking into account the years of professional experience to supplement the level of education), potential to perform "Administrative assistant" level functions, and the level of performance. These criteria are spelled out in Article 5(1) of the Commission Decision of 29 November 2006 (see Administrative Notice AN 55-2007) laying down the rules for implementing the attestation procedure⁽¹⁾.

The detailed rules for applying the admission criteria for the 2009 attestation exercise were adopted on 23^rd June 2009 by the appointing authority, as laid down in Article 4 of the above Decision⁽²⁾. The joint attestation committee was consulted on 9^th June 2009.


annex ATTESTATION PROCEDURE, 2009 EXERCISE :
Detailed rules for applying the admission criteria

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Footnotes

⁽¹⁾ Decision C(2006) 5788 of 29 November 2006 laying down the rules for implementing the attestation procedure.

⁽²⁾ The text of the Appointing Authority decision is available on the Intacomm/PersAdmin site dedicated to the 2009 attestation exercise – see http://www.cc.cec/pers_admin/attestation/2009_exercise_en.html.