Activites

• 2014/05/21 Proposal withdrawn by Commission
  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/human-resources/', 'title': 'Human Resources and Security'}, ŠEFČOVIČ Maroš
• 2005/12/13 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0477/2005 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT), and made some amendments stating that the opinion of the representative appointed by the European Parliament must be heard before the appointment of the Director and the renewal of his/her term of office. In addition, Parliament deleted the requirement that the renewal of the term of office must be on a proposal from the Commission. The management board and not the Commission will carry out the evaluation, which will be submitted without delay to the Commission and to the European Parliament.

• 2005/11/28 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0357/2005
• 2005/11/22 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2005/06/07 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2005/05/13 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2005)0190 summary

    PURPOSE : to amend Regulation 851/2004/EC establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control as regards the Director’s term of office.PROPOSED ACT : Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.CONTENT : in the European Union there are now 20 decentralised bodies which can be categorised as Community agencies on account of their common features: establishment on a legal basis, legal personality, administrative and financial autonomy, clearly‑defined sphere of responsibility and action, etc.The head of each Community agency usually has the title director and in some cases is assisted by one or more deputies. The director’s term of office is generally 4‑5 years. Most of the basic Regulations nevertheless provide for the director’s term of office and, where applicable, that of the deputies, to be extended for one or more further periods. The conditions governing appointment and term of office are laid down in each basic Regulation for each agency.Until recently, the body responsible for appointment simply adopted a decision extending an incumbent director’s term of office. Having examined the basic Regulations in more detail, however, the Commission has concluded that this practice poses a legal problem.According to the Commission, the fact that the term of office is renewable must be interpreted as meaning that, when the term of office ends, the incumbent has to apply for a new term. Applied to the agencies, this interpretation leads to the conclusion that the possibility of renewing the director’s term of office does not exempt the incumbent from following the appointment procedure laid down in the basic Regulation. Moreover, agency directors and their deputies are not only office‑holders but also agency staff members employed under temporary contracts and subject to the Conditions of employment of other servants of the European Communities. The appointment procedure must therefore include publication of the post in all Member  States and a selection process in compliance with the rules deriving from the basic Regulations and the Conditions of employment of other servants.As these procedures are generally lengthy and relatively expensive and given the agencies’ special needs and the practice in past years, the Commission proposes to avoid a full selection procedure each time that the first term of office for a director’s or other relevant person’s post comes to an end by either extending the current term of office or launching a new selection procedure in order to ensure continuity in the agency’s administrative management. A decision to extend an incumbent director’s term of office must be based on a prior assessment of their performance and of the agency’s needs, conducted by the authority proposing candidates to the appointing authority, and extension may be authorised only once and for a limited period not exceeding that stipulated for the initial term of office.In total, amendment of the articles relating to appointment is proposed in respect of 18 agencies – resulting in the presentation of 18 proposals for Regulations amending the basic Regulation for each agency.The main aim of this proposal is to harmonise the rules on the conditions and procedures applicable to extending the term of office of the Director, Deputy Director or President, as appropriate, of certain Community agencies.Provision should be made to extend this term of office once, after adequate evaluation.It is proposed that the director shall be appointed by the Management Board on the basis of a list of candidates proposed by the Commission after an open competition, following publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and elsewhere of a call for expressions of interest, for a five‑year period which, on a proposal from the Commission and after evaluation, may be extended once for a period of not more than five years.In the evaluation the Commission shall assess in particular:- the results achieved in the first term of office and the way in which they have been achieved;- the Centre’s duties and requirements in the coming years.Lastly, regarding the two agencies in respect of which a proposal for a Regulation has already been presented and is being examined or is in the process of being adopted (the European Chemicals Agency and the Community Fisheries Control Agency), the Commission will as necessary present proposals for amendments with a view to harmonising the texts for all the Community agencies.Similarly, no proposals have been presented for amendment of the acts setting up agencies and other bodies under the second and third pillars.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/human-resources/', 'title': 'Human Resources and Security'}, ŠEFČOVIČ Maroš

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2005)0190
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0357/2005
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0477/2005

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)