Reforming the Commission: termination-of-service for officials

PURPOSE : to establish special measures to terminate the service of officials of the European Communities appointed to an established post in the Commission. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Regulation 1746/2002/EC, Euratom introducing, in the context of the reform if the Commission, special measures to terminate the service of officials of the European Communities appointed to an established post in the Commission of the European Communities. CONTENT : in light of the reform of the Commission, this Regulation sets out special measures to terminate the service of officials of the European Communities appointed to an established post in the Commission. To recall, the Commission needs new skill profiles and a rebalancing of its establishment place. 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 time scale. Therefore special measures should be adopted with regard to the termination of service together with internal administrative arrangements for effective monitoring of this Regulation. This is the aim of this Regulation. The Regulation stipulates that the Commission shall adopt measures up to 31 December 2004 for terminating the service, within the meaning of Article 47 of the Staff Regulation, of officials who have reached the age of 55 and have completed at least 15 years service, regardless of the budget (operating from research) from which they are paid, with the exception of those in Grades A1 and A2. The total number of officials to be covered by the measures shall be 600. Respect for budget neutrality shall be monitored during the annual budget procedure. To this end, the Appointing Authority shall, taking into account the link between the umber of officials whose service was terminated and the number of officials recruited, report to the budgetary authority at the appropriate time, certifying that the condition of budgetary neutrality is met. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 3 October 2002. The measures shall apply until 31 December 2004.�