ATTESTATION PROCEDURE, 2010 EXERCISE:
Admission criteria
The attestation procedure allows officials in the assistants' function
group (hereinafter “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 with prospects of promotion to grade AST11. This procedure was
introduced by Article 10(3) of Annex XIII to the Staff Regulations.
Officials 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 a lower level of education than the minimum required),
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 laying down the rules for
implementing the attestation procedure (1).
In conformity with Article 4 of the above-mentioned decision, the
Appointing Authority adopts on an annual basis the detailed rules
governing the application of these criteria.
On 28th June 2010, the Appointing Authority adopted the detailed rules for
applying the admission criteria for the 2010 attestation exercise. These
rules can be found in annex.
The Joint attestation Committee was consulted on 17th May 2010.
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Footnotes
(1) Decision C(2006) 5788 of 29
November 2006 laying down the rules for implementing the attestation
procedure. |