CELEX: 51995PC0671
Language: en
Date: 1995-12-13
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) allocating, for 1996, catch quotas between Member States for vessels fishing in Icelandic waters

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                           COM(94) 671 final
                                           Brussels, 04.01.1995
        COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
                   AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
           Rebalancing of the Research personnel structure
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I. Introduction
   On the basis of an agreement of 1973, the Commission made a political commitment
   before the Council to recruit only temporary staff for jobs concerning the research
   budget, although these jobs are really of a permanent nature from a budgetary
   standpoint.
   This commitment was the result of a process which had started at the beginning of the
   1970's, and which had allowed inter alia the integration of personnel in the local
   statute in the capacity of temporary Research staff.
   The number of officials financed from the Research budget, recruited before 1973 or
   transferred since from other sectors of the Commission or of other Institutions, has
   decreased continuously, since there has been no new recruitment of officials on the
   Research budget for about twenty years.
   This situation puts Research activities at a disadvantage with respect to the other
   policies of the Commission whereas, from its treatment in the Single Act, strengthened
   further by the Maastricht treaty, Research acquired the permanence of a basic policy
   of the Community.
   The development of the successive Framework programmes, as well as the
   implementation of the specific programmes envisaged in the 4th RTD Framework
   programme, require an adjustment of the policy as regards Research personnel, and
   in particular:
   -   the introduction of a principle of flexibility in the management of staff connected
       with the Research budget, in view of the new policies and tasks entrusted to the
       research sector, and competitiveness to the JRC.
   -   the introduction of a policy of partial establishment of temporary agents connected
       with the Research budget so as, on the one hand, to maintain the excellence and
       competence of personnel in the research sector and, on the other hand, to preserve
       a technical and scientific memory,
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 II.     The implementation of flexibility
     Flexibility will be ensured by personnel whose number is limited to 25% of the
     manpower authorised for the research budget.
     Increased recourse will be made, in accordance with the applicable rules, to external
     personnel such as visiting scientists, holders of grants, national experts on secondment,
     trainees, as well as to auxiliary staff, and temporary staff within the meaning of article
     2d of the RAA, working under limited-duration contracts, whose cumulative duration
     will not be able to exceed 3 years. These temporary staff will be recruited on the basis
     of a shortened procedure of specific selections mainly for scientific or technical tasks.
     This type of selection excludes any possibility of extension or renewal of contracts
     beyond the maximum 3-year duration. The criteria of classification will be applicable
     to them.
111.     Rebalancing of the structure of Research personnel
     1. Proposed structure
         The constant reduction in the number of officials financed from the Research
         budget, as well as systematic recourse since 1973 to temporary contracts to fill the
         permanent posts of the Research budget, has contributed to a gradual compromising
         of the balance between the various Research personnel.
         The Commission considers that at the present time, a suitable Research personnel
         structure could be as follows:
         a)     25% personnel ensuring flexibility
         b)     35% temporary staff within the meaning of the 2d article of the RAA;
         c)     40% officials;
         These percentages have to apply separately both to the scientific or technical staff
         as well as to the administrative staff, as set out in the lists of the posts paid for
        from Research appropriations appearing in the budget, with the exception of grades
         Al and A2.
 2.     Implementation of the rebalancing of the structure of Research personnel
         Establishment will be carried out according to existing availability and in view of
        the plans for increasing staff numbers.
        While taking care, during a transition period, to guarantee an equitable treatment
        to all temporary agents concerned, coming from the various personnel lists, and
         categories of the research budget, the objective is gradually to reach a suitable
         rebalancing of the structure of Research personnel, which should in the long term
         be composed, up to the total of the lists of the posts concerning the Research
        budget, and divided proportionally according to the table of manpower, by
        framework (administrative or scientific/technical) and by category, of 25%
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   personnel ensuring flexibility, 35% temporary staff within the meaning of the
   art.2d. of the RAA, and 40% of officials.
3. Establishment
   On the basis of  the objectives defined above, and in view of the forecast population
   development,     the Commission will decide annually on the number of
   establishments    planned during the year, broken down by posts, framework
   (administrative   or scientific/technical) and category.
   The internal establishment competitions will be organized annually based on
   qualifications and tests, after consulting the Joint Committee (COPAR).
   They will be open to agents having in principle a minimum often years' seniority;
   the practicalities of which can however be adapted by the COPAR for each specific
   category of personnel according to the establishments planned.
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