WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2821/96 by Angela SIERRA GONZÁLEZ to the Commission. Staff policy and personnel management at the Commission
Date: 1996-10-25
Institutions: European Parliament, SIERRA GONZALEZ
Subjects: European Commission, competition (EU), personnel administration, servant (EU), temporary employment, work contract













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2821/96 by Angela SIERRA GONZÁLEZ to the Commission. Staff policy and personnel management at the Commission  


Official Journal C 096 , 24/03/1997 P. 0022 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-2821/96 by Angela Sierra González (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (25 October 1996)Subject: Staff policy and personnel management at the CommissionThe Commission is proposing to revise its current staff policy (contracts, duration, competitions, etc.) to make it more restrictive, and any changes made may be implemented retrospectively. The trade unions active within the Commission support the views of the Association of Temporary Staff and have rejected the Administration's position.What, precisely, are the measures which the Commission is intending to adopt?What are the practical implications of such measures for the current and future contracts of temporary staff?Has the Commission taken into account the social difficulties associated with the job insecurity affecting a substantial number of temporary staff currently in post?Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission (9 January 1997)On 13 November 1996, the Commission adopted a decision introducing a new policy for temporary staff covered by Article 2(a) of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the Communities. This decision introduced both new arrangements and transitional arrangements for staff in place.The main points of the new arrangements for temporary staff are as follows:- recruitment of specialized temporary staff to intermediate grades in accordance with more rapid and more flexible selection procedures;- three-year contracts, renewable once for a maximum of one year if the interests of the service warrant it;- a rule that periods of service may not be accumulated in order to prevent staff who are not officials from serving too long at the Commission;- specialized external competitions for recruitment to intermediate grades.The previous decision, dated 23 February 1994, limited the duration of contracts to three years and staff recruited under those arrangements had to be duly informed that no guarantee would be given that their contracts would be renewed subsequently, so that it was up to them to take the appropriate measures on the basis of the duration of the contract offered. Since the rules on the duration of contracts are more favourable under the new arrangements than under the 1994 decision, they have been applied retrospectively to staff recruited under the earlier arrangements. Contracts of these staff members may be extended within these limits, at the request of their Directorates-General and if the interests of the service warrant it. Moreover, the decision of 13 November 1996 provides that, since the contracts of these temporary staff can be extended, they will be covered by the transitional arrangements put in place until 1999 and that they will be authorized to sit internal competitions in order to be established.