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III Notices

European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO)

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NOTICE OF OPEN COMPETITION EPSO/AD/24/04

(2004/C 187 A/01)

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is organising an open competition, based on tests, to establish a reserve pool from which to recruit

ADMINISTRATORS (1).(A*6); (2), IN SPECIALIST FIELDS OF RESEARCH, of Cypriot, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovenian and Slovakian citizenship

CONTENTS

A.   Duties and eligibility (profile sought)

Open competition EPSO/AD/24/04 is being organised to recruit administrators (A*6) of Cypriot, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovenian and Slovakian citizenship in the following fields of research:

The purpose of this competition is to draw up four reserve lists from which to fill vacant posts in the institutions of the European Union (and in particular the European Commission).

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) has also published the following open competition with the same fields:

EPSO/A/17/04 in Official Journal C 81 A on 31 March 2004.

Candidates already registered may also apply for this present competition (EPSO/AD/24/04).

However, the tests of both competitions may take place on the same day. Candidates are required therefore, when confirming their participation, to indicate via their EPSO profile, the competition for which they wish to register.

I.   Nature of duties

Field 1   Chemistry and biology:

Field 2:   Physics and materials science:

Field 3:   Socioeconomics and risk:

Field 4:   Image and data processing:

The duties mainly involve:

You may apply for this competition if, on the closing date for electronic registration (see section C), you meet the following requirements:

1.   Certificates and diplomas

You must have a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma or degree in the field you have chosen for this competition, e.g. physics, chemistry, life sciences, materials science, engineering, geography, agronomy, mathematics, statistics and/or economics.

The selection board will allow for differences between education systems. A table showing examples of the diplomas required for this competition is annexed to the Guide for Applicants (see EPSO website (3)).

Note that some of the tests will be on subjects that will require you to have in-depth knowledge (relevant to the duties described at A.I) in the field you have chosen for this competition.

2.   Professional experience

Since obtaining the qualification required for admission to the competition, you must have gained at least three years' full-time graduate-level professional experience relevant to the duties concerned.

Your professional experience in the chosen field must have been obtained in a public or private body (industry, private company, research institute, university, national or international public body, etc.) and must have involved activities relevant to the field.

The following will be counted as professional experience:

If the period of the specialist work placement or further training coincides with a period of professional activity, the selection board will take only the period of professional activity into account.

3.   Knowledge of languages

You must have a thorough knowledge of one of the following official languages: Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovakian or Slovenian — language 1 — and a satisfactory knowledge of English, French or German — language 2.

Please give details of which languages you know in the online registration form (4).

After the closing date for applications, you may not change the languages in which you have specified that you wish to take the tests.

4.   General terms and conditions

Applicants:

B.   The different stages of the competition

For each field, if, after the expiry date of the deadline for confirmation of applicants, the number of admissible applications exceeds the ceiling for admission to the written tests, preselection tests will be held. If not, candidates will simply be asked to print out, complete and return the full application form, which can be found in their EPSO profile on the EPSO website ()for admission to the competition.

You will be informed of the selection board's decisions concerning you.

The reserve lists, as well as their expiry dates, will be published (6) in the Official Journal of the European Union

C.   How to apply

(Please refer also to the Guide for Applicants, which can be found on the EPSO website () and contains detailed instructions to help you submit your application correctly).

All EPSO's communications to candidates for this competition will be in English, German or French. However, you may address EPSO in any official EU language of your choice.

Electronic registration

Before submitting your application, you should carefully check whether you meet all the eligibility criteria (see section A, particularly concerning the types of diploma and professional experience required).

If you want to apply, you must do so via the Internet by going to the EPSO website () and following the instructions there on the various stages of the procedure.

It is your responsibility to complete your online registration in time (7). We strongly advise you not to wait until the last few days before applying, since heavy Internet traffic or a fault with your Internet connection could lead to the online registration being terminated before you have completed it, thereby obliging you to repeat the whole process. Once the deadline has passed you will not be able to do so.

On completion of your online registration, you will receive on screen a number which you must note — this will be your reference number for your application. Once you receive this number, the process is finished — it is the confirmation that we have registered the data you entered.

If you have not received this number, this means that your application has not been registered.

You must have an e-mail address. This will be used to identify your registration. The information you must enter in your registration includes the languages you choose (see A.II.3) and the type of diploma required for admission to the competition (title, name of issuing establishment and date obtained).

Once registered, you can use the EPSO website () (click on ‘Competitions’ — ‘Ongoing competitions’) to follow the progress of the competition and check the test dates and locations.

If you have a disability that prevents you from sending an online application, you may request — preferably by fax (8)— a paper version of the form, which you should fill in, sign and return by registered mail, postmarked no later than the closing date for registration. All subsequent communication between EPSO and yourself will then be by post.

You must enclose with your application form a certificate attesting your disability, issued by a recognised body. You should also set out on a separate sheet of paper any special arrangements you think are needed to make it easier for you to take part in the tests.

The closing date for registration is 23 September 2004. Online registration will not be possible after 12.00 noon Brussels time on that day.

Within a month following the deadline for applications, EPSO will invite candidates to confirm their application as well as the competition for which they are applying and, in such case, to choose the town in which they wish to sit the preselection and/or written test(s).

This request for confirmation will be made via the EPSO profile.

If, within a period of two months following the deadline for applications, no confirmation has been received, EPSO will consider the application as withdrawn. This withdrawal will cancel the application.

5.   If, at any stage in the procedure it is established that the information in your online registration or full application form is incorrect, you will be disqualified.

6.   To facilitate the administration of the competition, in all correspondence you should GIVE YOUR FULL NAME AS IN YOUR APPLICATION, THE NUMBER AND YOUR LANGUAGE 1 FOR THE COMPETITION, THE FIELD YOU HAVE CHOSEN TOGETHER WITH THE CANDIDATE NUMBER YOU RECEIVE WHEN YOUR ONLINE REGISTRATION IS ACCEPTED.

D.   GENERAL INFORMATION

1.   Equal opportunities

The European institutions apply an equal opportunities policy and accept applications without distinction on grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status or family situation.

2.   Selection board

A selection board is appointed for each competition. It is made up of both representatives from the administration and representatives from the Institutions' Staff Committee. The names of its members will be published on the EPSO website () approximately two weeks before the preselection tests (or the written test).

You are strictly forbidden to make any contact with the members of the selection board, either directly or indirectly. Any infringement of this rule will disqualify you from the competition.

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is responsible for all communication with applicants until the competition is completed.

3.   Approximate timetable

The competition will take approximately nine months after the closing date for inscriptions, depending on the number of applicants.

Full details are available on the EPSO website ().

4.   Requests for applications to be reconsidered — appeal procedures — complaints to the European Ombudsman

See Annex.

5.   Recruitment

If you are placed on the reserve lists you may be eligible for appointment as a probationary official as and when required by the European institutions, in Brussels, Luxembourg or any other place of activity.

If you are offered a post, you will be asked to produce the originals of all the requisite documents such as diplomas, so that copies can be authenticated.

Recruitment will depend on vacant posts and budgetary funds becoming available.

Depending on the nature of a post, candidates on the reserve list may initially be offered a temporary contract; in this case, their names will remain on the reserve list.

7.   Category

This reserve pool of administrators is intended for the category A*.

8.   Remuneration

Basic monthly salary as at 1 May 2004:

grade A*6 (see footnote no. 1) first step: EUR 4 311,55

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(1)  The European institutions apply an equal opportunities policy and accept applications without distinction on grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status or family situation.

(2)  The Council has adopted new staff regulations involving a new career structure: recruitment will be made in accordance with the arrangements set out, in particular, in Article 12 of Section 2 of Annex XIII of the new staff regulations (see website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/personnel_administration/statut/tocen100.pdf).

(3)  http://europa.eu.int/epso

(4)  For practical reasons this form is available only in English, French and German.

(5)  If a number of candidates have obtained the same number of marks for the last place, the selection board will admit all of them.

(6)  A successful candidate may explicitly request that his/her name not be published.

(7)  No later than 12 noon, Brussels time, on 23 September 2004

(8)  Write to EPSO — Info-recruitment — CORT 80 0/48 — B-1049 Brussels, fax number: (32-2) 295 74 88.

(9)  E-mail address: epso-AD/24/04-en@cec.eu.int

(10)  The deadline will be indicated well in advance on the EPSO website.

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ANNEX

REQUESTS FOR APPLICATIONS TO BE RECONSIDERED — APPEAL PROCEDURES — COMPLAINTS TO THE EUROPEAN OMBUDSMAN

If, at any stage of the competition, you consider that your interests have been prejudiced by a particular decision, you can:

Note that complaints made to the Ombudsman have no suspensive effect on the period laid down in Articles 90(2) and 91 of the Staff Regulations for lodging, respectively, a complaint or an appeal with the Court of First Instance under Article 236 of the EC Treaty.

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