OUR ACTIONS
Contractual Agents

The creation, and introduction, of a Contractual Agent position is one of the most problematic measures of the Kinnok Reform. The difficulties encountered by our contractual colleagues are undeniable. These result, in major part, from the Reform and in particular from a much lower salary grade than was promised by the instigators of the Reform. Drastic reduction of salaries, conditions of employment and classification and EPSO tests are many sensitive subjects on which R&D and the trade unions of the Alliance work in order to limit the damage of the Reform and the Transition

 

Contract Agents Work groups - Update
Results of the EPSO tests: The current situation
December 2005
Publication of the new general dispositions of execution
R&D explains itself on the strike of the 10th of November 2005
R&D and the Alliance obtain concrete results
R&D and the Alliance answer your questions
R&D and the Alliance take a bearing on the Contractual file

 

 
Shipwrecked of the Reform:
Court of Justice: OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL

R&D calls the « shipwrecked of the reform » all the colleagues recruted after the 1st of Mai 2004 and who were classified two to three grades below the one announced in the notice of competition. By modifying the conditions of recruitment and the development of career of the newly recruited after the 1st of May 2004 – mainly the nationals of the new member States – Kinnock and his allies managed to create a two speed public function. For the fist time in the history of the European institutions, a trade union supported all the colleagues of all the institutions. R&D has two approaches: a political one and a judicial one.

Political:

Meeting the On 25 March 2009, at 13:00 at LOI 80 02/CCP meeting room
Information meeting: Video (intranet)
Court of Justice: OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL
30 April 2004: Recruitments in the dark !
TAKE YOUR SEATS PLEASE - R&D'S BUS TO JUSTICE IS ABOUT TO SET OFF.
Case CENTENO ‘v’ Commission
THE APPEAL HAS BEEN LAUNCHED
R&D decided to pursue the fight on the political as well as the judicial level
The CFI has given its judgment. Other languages  Explanation
A representative of R&D assisted to the audience held at the Court of First Instance (CFI) on 6 December 2006.
During the information meeting of the 27 April 2006 organised by R&D concerning those left high and dry by the Reform, M Louis and Orlandi, lawyers, explained the state of play concerning recruitment after 1 May 2004.
R&D negotiated and obtained of all the institutions (except the Court of Justice) that an eventual positive decision of the Tribunal of First Instance would be extended to all the colleagues in the same situation as them even if they didn’t introduce an individual claim.
R&D forced the « pro-reformists » to acknowledge their mistakes and to join forces.
R&D launches a non follower support operation to ALL the new civil servants. This initiative doesn’t know any precedents in the history of the institution.

Judicial:

The cases introduced and backed by R&D. A first judgment was given in July 2007. Other languages

  • Against the Commission
    Case T-130/05: Albert-Bousquet 'v' Commission (OJEU C132/57)
    Case T-160/05: Dag Johansson 'v' Commission (OJEU C171/44)
  • Against the Council
    Case T-164/05: De Geest 'v' Council (OJEU C171/46)
  • Against the European Parliament
    Case T-170/05: Renate Amm 'v' Parliament (OJEU C171/49)
    Case T-285/05: Bernd Lippert 'v' Parliament (OJEU C229/72)
  • Against the Economical and Social European Committee
    Case T-162/05: Grijseels and Lopez Garcia 'v' ESCE (OJEU C171/45)
  • Against the Court of Justice
    Case T-287/05: Idoia Bengoa Geisler 'v' Court of Justice (OJEU C229/74)
Empty Grades:

Due to the problems caused by the « empty grades » - the new grades A*9 and B*9 - R&D and the FFPE have developed a double strategy in order to help the colleagues penalised by the reform and the « linear career». This strategy is articulated around two axes: a judicial action and a political step.

The juridical action is articulated around several initiatives:

  • The cases at the TPI – joint cases BLOCK – KNAUL T114/05 and
    T-120/05
  • An information query under the title of article 90.1 of the statute followed by a complaint under the title of the article 90.2 of the statute

The political action aims to negotiate more favourable promotion rates in order to limit the time wasted by the colleagues in these new grades.

 

Appeal introduced the 25 April 2006 — Martin Avendano e.a./Commission
R&D and FFPE offer to all the newly promoted in A*9 and B*9 an new text for the claim
R&D and FFPE explain their action and introduce the cases BLOCK and KNAUL

 
Category Passage:

The Kinnock Reform was badly conceived and badly negotiated on the bases of promises essentially vacuoUS. The ultimate category passages – symbol of reward of merit – were completely vacuous of meaning and were progressively replaced by rather deceiving certification / attestation procedures. R&D mobilised itself at the side of all the current and future transcatégorials to give once again a meaning to this procedure which allowed numerous colleagues to make the most of their merits without necessarily depending of their hierarchy. R&D’s approach is double: political and judicial.

Political:

R&D is negotiating the organisation of new internal competitions and better conditions of category passage.

Judicial:

October 2008
Information meeting Video (intranet): Original  En
September 2008
 Compensatory payment
March 2006
 Appeal

CDR:

The CDR is taking a more and more important dimension in the life of the civil servant. It conditions your careers advancement and therefore your treatment. It is henceforth a central tool in the career management that ought to be well mastered. It is at the centre of your day-to-day vocational training: definition of the objectives, training card and development of skills, other participating work.

By the inherent weakness in the CRD system, the Joint Evaluation Committee (JEC) plays an essential role in the defence of your interests. At this title, R&D therefore multiplies the efforts to reinforce its team and provides a help desk for all the colleagues in difficulty. You can ask all you questions and demand for assistance at:
OSP-RD-REC-CDR@ec.europa.eu

 

March 2008
SURVIVAL HANDBOOK
October 2007
NEW EVALUATION AND PROMOTION SYSTEM
IR-REC-PONSIBLE PROPOSAL
July 2007
 Abolition of CDR
New evaluation and promotion system to be introduced in 2008
CDR – Could the nightmare be coming to an end?
R&D has developped a promotion calculator
CDR – 2001/2002 Evaluation period – Articles 26 and 43 of the Staff Regulations – Rights of the defence – Cancellation
R&D and the CDR 2005: First aid kit - the JEC
REC 2005 - Survival manual
R&D and the CDR 2005: Information meetings and Help Desk
R&D and the REC 2005 Survival manual for the external service personnel - Update 2005

 
Pensions:

A new Belgian law concerning the transfer of pension rights acquired in Belgium was published in the Moniteur Belge of the 27th March 2003. It is applicable in a retroactive way to the demands introduced from the 1st of January 2002. The calculation of the annual instalment according to this law would be, in most cases, more favourable for the concerned colleagues. R&D is also taking steps to the intervention of the Commission with the Belgian State, in order that the colleagues who introduced a transfer demand to the wrights to Belgian pension before January 2002 may also benefit of a new calculation according to the legislation of 2003.

R&D informs you about the transfer of pension rights
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