NOTICE OF OPEN COMPETITION

EPSO/AST/57/08

(2008/C 93 A/01)

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is organising the following admission tests and open competition, based on tests, to constitute a reserve from which to recruit

ASSISTANTS (*1) (AST1)

in the field of internal security

CONTENTS

TEST PROCEDURES

TEST PROCEDURES

I.   DUTIES AND ELIGIBILITY

Open competition EPSO/AST/57/08 is being held to recruit assistants (AST1) in the field of internal security.

The purpose of this competition is to draw up a reserve list from which to fill vacant posts in the institutions of the European Union.

The European Commission is not associated with this competition as it does not intend to recruit any staff from the reserve list at this stage.

Number of successful candidates: 60

A.   DUTIES

Internal protection service

Those recruited will carry out, under the authority of the administrator responsible and following general instructions, complex management, executive and supervisory duties, such as:

If recruited, you may be required to work during the day or at night, as well as at weekends and on holidays. You may also be required to carry and use weapons in the performance of your official duties. You may be assigned to missions relating to the security organisation of civil crisis operations run by the EU beyond its frontiers.

The European Union institutions attach particular importance to your ability to grasp problems of all kinds, often complex in nature, to react rapidly to changing circumstances and to communicate effectively. You will have to show initiative and imagination and be highly motivated. You should be able to work frequently under pressure, both on your own and in a team, and adjust to a multicultural working environment. You will also be expected to develop your professional skills throughout your career.

By submitting a formal application, you agree to undergo any security screening required by the General Secretariat of the institutions if you are placed on the reserve list by the selection board.

If you are authorised to access classified information, you must indicate this in your formal application. You will be asked to produce the authorisation when you are recruited.

B.   ELIGIBILITY

(a)   General conditions

You must:

The competition notice does not set any age limit, but please note the information in Section V.7 concerning the retirement age.

(b)   Special conditions

1.   Qualifications

The posts to be filled require:

The selection board will allow for differences between education systems. For examples of the minimum qualifications required, see the tables annexed to the Guide for Applicants (http://europa.eu/epso/on-line-applications/guide_en.htm) for each category. Note that these are examples only — stricter requirements may be set in the competition notice.

2.   Professional experience

No professional experience is required.

3.   Knowledge of languages

You must have:

Under Article 45(2) of the Staff Regulations, officials must prove their ability to work in a third language before their first promotion after recruitment.

You must specify your choice of language for the admission tests and the competition tests (English, French or German: language 2) when you register online (1) . You will not be able to change your choice after the deadline for online registration (20.5.2008).

To ensure that all general texts relating to the competition and all communication between you and EPSO are clearly understood on both sides, only English, French or German will be used for the invitations to the various tests and correspondence between you and EPSO.

You may send any questions to EPSO by e-mail (EPSO-AST-57-08@ec.europa.eu), but please check first that the information you want is not in the competition notice or the Guide for Applicants, or on the EPSO website (http://europa.eu/epso).

II.   ADMISSION TESTS

The appointing authority will invite you to the admission tests if your online registration shows that you meet the general and specific conditions in Section I.B on the closing date for online registration (20.5.2008).

TEST PROCEDURES

EPSO will organise computer-based admission tests for all the candidates admitted. The tests will be held in the European Union in one or more centres specialising in this type of test, depending on availability.

You will be informed of the procedure for attending these tests via your EPSO profile.

You will take the admission tests in English, French or German (language 2).

Wrong answers in these tests will not be penalised.

The 720 candidates with the highest aggregate marks (2) in the admission tests and a pass mark in each will be invited to submit a full application for admission to the open competition.

III.   OPEN COMPETITION

Once the applications have been received, the appointing authority will draw up a list of the candidates who meet the general conditions set out in Section I.B.(a) and send it, together with their application files, to the chair of the selection board.

After having looked through the list, the selection board will admit you to the written tests if you are among the 180 candidates with the highest aggregate marks (2) in the admission tests and meet the specific conditions set out in Section I.B.(b).

TEST PROCEDURES

1.   Written tests — Marking

You will take written tests (a) and (b) in English, French or German (language 2).

The written tests will be held simultaneously at one or more centres in the European Union.

The date scheduled by EPSO for the written tests cannot be changed at your request. You will be notified of the date when you receive your invitation to the tests (via your EPSO profile).

2.   Oral test — Marking

Once the written tests have been marked, the 90 candidates with the highest aggregate marks (2) in those tests and a pass mark in each will be admitted to the oral test.

The oral test will normally be held in Brussels.

3.   Reserve list

The selection board will place on the reserve list the names of the successful candidates with the highest aggregate marks (2) in the written and oral tests and a pass mark in each (see Section I, Number of successful candidates).

The list will be drawn up by merit group (maximum of four groups) and the names of the successful candidates will be given in alphabetical order within each group.

The reserve list and its expiry date will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the EPSO website (http://europa.eu/epso) (3).

IV.   HOW TO APPLY

Please consult the Guide for Applicants (http://europa.eu/epso/on-line-applications/guide_en.htm), which can be found on the EPSO website (http://europa.eu/epso). It contains detailed instructions to help you submit your application correctly.

1.   Creating an EPSO profile/Online registration

Before registering, you should check carefully whether you meet all the eligibility criteria.

If you decide to apply, you must register via the Internet by going to the EPSO website and following the instructions there concerning the various stages of the procedure.

It is your responsibility to complete your online registration in time. We strongly advise you not to wait until the last few days before applying, since heavy Internet traffic or a problem with the Internet connection could lead to your online registration being interrupted before you complete it, thereby obliging you to repeat the whole process. Once the deadline has passed, you will not be able to register.

On completion of your online registration, you will receive on screen a registration number, which you must note — this will be your reference number in all matters concerning your application. Once you receive this number, the registration process is finished — it is the confirmation that we have registered the data you entered.

Please note that you must have an e-mail address. This will be used to identify you. The information you must enter when registering includes your choice of languages and details of the qualifications required for admission to the competition (qualification, name of issuing establishment and date obtained).

No documents are required at this stage. Full applications will be requested later (see Section IV.3).

Once you have registered online, you can follow the progress of the competition by going to the EPSO website (http://europa.eu/epso) and clicking on ‘Ongoing competitions’.

If you have a disability that prevents you from registering online, you may request a paper version of the form (4) (preferably by fax), which you should fill in, sign and return by registered mail, postmarked no later than the closing date for registration. All subsequent communication between EPSO and you will be by post.

You must enclose with your application form a certificate attesting your disability, issued by a recognised body. You should also set out on a separate sheet of paper any special arrangements you think are needed to make it easier for you to take part in the tests.

2.   Invitations

Details of when and where to attend the admission tests and other tests will be available only on the EPSO website (http://europa.eu/epso). You can access this information by entering the user name and password you specified when registering online. You are responsible for updating your EPSO profile to reflect any change in your postal or e-mail address.

You are also responsible for consulting your EPSO profile to keep track of the progress of the competition and to check the information relevant to your application at every stage. If you find that you cannot do this, you must notify EPSO immediately by e-mail (EPSO-AST-57-08@ec.europa.eu).

Wherever possible, you will be asked to sit the admission tests in the city you chose when registering online. For organisational reasons you will not be able to switch to another venue unless you can prove that you have changed residence and have informed EPSO of this no later than three weeks before the planned date of the admission tests.

3.   Full application

If you are among the candidates with the highest aggregate marks in the admission tests and a pass mark in each, as specified in Section II, you will be asked to print out and complete the full application form, which you will find in your EPSO profile on the website. It must be sent in by the required closing date (5).

Documents to enclose

Your application must give details of your citizenship, studies, and any professional experience. You should also enclose the following documents:

You should also enclose a numbered index of these documents, on a separate sheet.

You should only send uncertified photocopies of these documents. Paper copies of web pages and/or references to websites do not constitute supporting documents for these purposes.

When completing your application form, you may not refer to any previous application forms submitted or any other documents enclosed with such applications. None of the documents submitted with your application will be returned.

Signing and sending the form

It is your responsibility to make sure that your application form, duly completed, SIGNED and accompanied by all the supporting documents, is sent by registered post to the address below by the closing date (5) (the postmark will serve as proof of the date of sending):

Scrutiny of applications

The selection board will look through the files of candidates with the highest aggregate marks in the admission tests and a pass mark in each to determine whether they satisfy the conditions laid down in Section I.B of this notice. The selection board will invite you to the written tests if you are among the candidates with the highest marks and meet all the criteria for admission to the competition (see Section III, second paragraph).

You will be disqualified if:

4.   Reserve list

The names of the successful candidates (see Section III.3) will be included on the reserve list.

V.   GENERAL INFORMATION

1.   Equal opportunities

The European Union institutions apply a policy of equal opportunities and accept applications without distinction on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.

2.   Selection board

A selection board is appointed for each competition. Its members are designated by the institutions and their staff committees in equal numbers. The chair and members are then appointed by EPSO's appointing authority. Their names will be published on the EPSO website after candidates have been notified whether they have been admitted to the competition.

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is responsible for all communication with you until the competition is completed. You are strictly forbidden to make any contact with the members of the selection board, either directly or indirectly. The selection board will decide whether candidates infringing this rule are to be disqualified.

3.   Approximate timetable

Depending on the total number of candidates, the competition will take approximately one year from the closing date for online registration.

Full details will be available on the EPSO website.

4.   Requests from candidates for access to information concerning them

Candidates involved in selection procedures have the specific right of access to certain information concerning them directly and individually, as described below. EPSO may therefore supply supplementary information on candidates' participation in the competition at their request. Candidates must send such requests in writing to EPSO within a month of being notified of their results in the competition. EPSO will reply within a month of receiving the request. Requests will be dealt with taking account of the confidential nature of selection board proceedings under the Staff Regulations (Annex III, Article 6) and in compliance with the rules on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data. Examples of the type of information which may be supplied are given in the Guide for Applicants, Section III.3.

5.   Requests for review — Appeal procedures — Complaints to the European Ombudsman

See Annex.

6.   Recruitment conditions/Career

If you are placed on the reserve list you will be eligible for appointment as a security officer; recruitment will normally be as a probationary official, as and when required by the European institutions, in Brussels, Luxembourg or any other place of activity.

If you are on the reserve list and are offered a post, you will be asked to produce the originals of all the requisite documents, in particular your qualifications, so that copies can be authenticated.

Recruitment will depend on posts and funds becoming available.

Depending on the nature of the post concerned, successful candidates on the reserve list may initially be offered a temporary contract; in this case, their names will remain on the reserve list.

Article 29(1)(b) of the Staff Regulations refers to the possibility for officials to request a transfer to another institution or agency at any time during their career. However, in the interests of the service, newly recruited officials are transferred only in exceptional and duly justified cases during their first three years of service. Any such transfer is subject to the agreement of both the institution or agency that originally recruited the official and the institution or agency to which the official requests to be transferred.

7.   Retirement

Under the provisions of the Staff Regulations concerning the retirement age of staff, officials are retired:

8.   Grade

Assistants will be recruited from the reserve list to grade AST1.

9.   Remuneration

Basic monthly salary as at 1 January 2008:

grade AST1, first step: EUR 2 472,65

10.   Protection of personal data

As the body responsible for organising the competition, EPSO ensures that applicants' personal data are processed as required by Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (OJ, L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1). This applies in particular to the confidentiality and security of such data. (6)

(*1)  The European Union institutions apply a policy of equal opportunities and accept applications without distinction on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.

(1)  For practical reasons the online registration form is available in English, French or German only.

(2)  Where a number of candidates tie for the last available place, they will all be admitted to the next stage of the competition.

(3)  A successful candidate may explicitly request that his/her name not be published. Any such request must reach EPSO no later than two weeks after candidates are notified of the results.

(4)  EPSO — Info-recruitment — Avenue de Cortenbergh, 80 — 4/11 — B-1049 Brussels — Fax : (32-2) 295 74 88.

(5)  The closing date will be indicated in good time in your EPSO profile.

(6)  OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.

RESERVE LISTS (1)

OPEN COMPETITION EPSO/AD/46/06

ADMINISTRATORS (AD5)

WITH BULGARIAN CITIZENSHIP

(2008/C 93 A/02)

FIELD 1: EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The reserve lists will be valid until 31 December 2009 and may be extended.

(1)  A successful candidate may explicitly request her/his name not be published.

RESERVE LISTS (1)

OPEN COMPETITION EPSO/AD/47/06

ADMINISTRATORS (AD5)

WITH ROMANIAN CITIZENSHIP

(2008/C 93 A/03)

FIELD 1: EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The reserve lists will be valid until 31 December 2009 and may be extended.

(1)  A successful candidate may explicitly request her/his name not be published.

RESERVE LISTS (1)

OPEN COMPETITIONS

ADMINISTRATORS (AD5)

(2008/C 93 A/04)

EPSO/AD/53/06 — CYPRIOT CITIZENSHIP (CY)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/54/06 — CZECH CITIZENSHIP (CZ)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

EPSO/AD/55/06 — ESTONIAN CITIZENSHIP (EE)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/56/06 — HUNGARIAN CITIZENSHIP (HU)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

EPSO/AD/57/06 — LITHUANIAN CITIZENSHIP (LT)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/58/06 — LATVIAN CITIZENSHIP (LV)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/59/06 — MALTESE CITIZENSHIP (MT)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/60/06 — POLISH CITIZENSHIP (PL)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

EPSO/AD/61/06 — SLOVENIAN CITIZENSHIP (SI)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

EPSO/AD/62/06 — SLOVAK CITIZENSHIP (SK)

Field 2: Law

Merit Group 1

Merit Group 2

Merit Group 3

Field 3: Economics

Field 4: Microeconomics/Business Administration

The reserve lists will be valid until 31 December 2009 and may be extended.

(1)  A successful candidate may explicitly request her/his name not be published.

(*1)  Information erased or replaced within the framework of protection of personal data and/or confidentiality.

RESERVE LISTS (1)

OPEN COMPETITIONS

(2008/C 93 A/05)

EPSO/AD92/07 — CONFERENCE INTERPRETERS (AD5)

HAVING SLOVENIAN (SL) AS MAIN LANGUAGE

Option 1

Option 2

NO SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Option 3

EPSO/AD93/07 — CONFERENCE INTERPRETERS (AD7)

HAVING SLOVENIAN (SL) AS MAIN LANGUAGE

Option 1

NO SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Option 2

NO SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Option 3

The reserve lists will be valid until 31 December 2009 and may be extended.

(1)  A successful candidate may explicitly request her/his name not be published.

Corrigendum to notice of open competition: EPSO/AD/114/07 — Heads of Unit (AD12) in the field of translation who have Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Maltese as their main language

( Official Journal of the European Union C 279 A of 22 November 2007 )

(2008/C 93 A/06)

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Corrigendum to notice of open competitions EPSO/AD/118-123/08 to constitute a reserve of Administrators (AD5) in the field of translation having Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Slovak or Slovene as their main language.

( Official Journal of the European Union C 25 A of 30 January 2008 )

(2008/C 93 A/07)

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