ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM: COURT OF AUDITORS DOUBTFUL ABOUT PROMOTION ACCORDING TO MERIT.

The Court of Auditors thinks it is important for the European civil service to have qualities in terms of independence, powers, high productivity, efficiency and integrity. Yet this has not prompted Juan Manuel Fabra Valles to share the aims of Commission Vice-President Neil Kinnock in his plan to create a merit-based approach in the new career system. The Court of Auditors is aware that appointing and keeping highly-qualified staff means offering applicants sufficiently attractive financial conditions. Towards this end, the career system should avoid disagreements arising owing to too much emphasis on the individual performance rather than team effort, according to the report. The Auditors point out that the switch from the current career and wages system to the new one will inevitably be a complicated process. The European Commission will have key role to play. It will have to provide the other institutions, not least the smallest ones, with adequate information technology resources, warns the Court.

The Auditors believe the possibility of retiring between 55 and 60 years of age without forfeiting any rights is a fairer system than the emergence of a costly system that is not necessary. They...

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