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.