Considerations on COM(2002)136-2 - Special measures to terminate the service of officials of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU

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dossier COM(2002)136-2 - Special measures to terminate the service of officials of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU.
document COM(2002)136 EN
date September 30, 2002
 
(1) The Treaty on European Union has extended the scope of the Council's activities and has in consequence increased the role and tasks of its General Secretariat.

(2) The General Secretariat of the Council meets a significant part of its needs through internal rationalisation and redeployment.

(3) The General Secretariat of the Council is taking the necessary steps, mainly through training, to help redeployed staff to adjust in the most satisfactory and effective way possible.

(4) 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 deemed to be too far removed from the duties to be performed.

(5) The General Secretariat of the Council needs new skill profiles and a rebalancing of its establishment plan, but the number of officials retiring in the normal way will not be sufficient to allow the necessary skills to be acquired through recruiting new officials within a satisfactory timescale.

(6) 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.

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

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