Considerations on COM(2001)50-2 - Special measures to terminate the service of officials of the Commission of the EC as part of the reform of the Commission

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dossier COM(2001)50-2 - Special measures to terminate the service of officials of the Commission of the EC as part of the reform of the Commission.
document COM(2001)50 EN
date September 30, 2002
 
(1) The reform of the Commission is designed in particular to refocus the use of resources on its priority activities.

(2) In its communication of 9 February 2000(4) the Commission indicated that it intends to use its human resources as efficiently as possible.

(3) The Commission meets a significant part of its needs through internal rationalisation and redeployment.

(4) The Commission moreover is taking the necessary steps, in particular through training, to help redeployed staff to adjust in the most satisfactory and effective way possible.

(5) However, the skills of a section of officials, who have reached the age of 55 and who have completed at least 15 years of service, are too far removed from the duties to be performed.

(6) The Commission needs new skill profiles and a rebalancing of its establishment plan; the number of officials retiring in the normal way will not be sufficient to allow the necessary skills to be acquired through recruiting new staff within a satisfactory timescale.

(7) Special measures should accordingly be adopted with regard to termination of service together with internal administrative arrangements for effective monitoring of the implementation of this Regulation.

(8) These measures must be applied as a matter of urgency and as far as possible with due regard for geographical balance, in compliance with the provisions of this Regulation.

(9) These measures must be budget-neutral. To this end a monitoring mechanism should be set up by the budgetary authority.