Provision of wider terms of reference for the Working Party studying the problems of a European Civil Service

Recommendation 136 (1957)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

see Doc.659, Report of the Committee on the Budget This Recommendation was adopted by the Assembly at its 8thSitting, on 3rd May 1957

The Assembly,

Having regard to Resolution(55) 19, adopted on 12th October, 1955 by the Committee of Ministers, settingup a Working Party to study problems of a European Civil Service and to makeproposals for the harmonizing of the separate statutes and for the co-operationof organisations in the administrative field ;

Considering that theGovernments which have signed the Treaties instituting the European EconomicCommunity and the European Atomic Energy Community will be preparing staffregulations for the officials of the new Communities ;

Recalling the wish expressed on several occasions that a genuine corps ofEuropean officials be formed ;

Convinced that, in presentcircumstances, in view of the new Communities about to employ large staffs andof the manifest trend towards rationalising European institutions, it would beof considerable advantage to increase in every possible way the attempts toprepare a real "Statute" for a European Civil Service, applicable to allofficials employed in these organisations ;

Considering that thecreation of a genuine body of civil servants, endowed with a constitutionalstatus well adapted to their tasks, is essential to the efficiency of Europeaninstitutions ;

Considering, therefore, that the preparation of such a "Statute" is inthe interests of the organisations, their Member Governments and the officialsemployed by them,

Recommends that the Committee of Ministers should:

1 Specify the terms of reference of theWorking Party set up by Resolution (55) 19, while instructing it to present, atthe earliest possible date, a general report containing a complete draftEuropean Civil Service Statute ;

2 Place at the disposal ofthe Working Party the necessary means to accomplish this task within a givenperiod ;

3 Invite the Working Party to approach the InterimCommission set up by the signatories to the Treaties instituting the EuropeanEconomic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, in order that theWorking Party, bearing in mind the views and work of this Commission, mayprepare a draft Statute applicable to both present and future Europeanorganisations ;

4 Urge the Governments represented on theInterim Commission to facilitate in every possible way this approach, in theinterests of harmonising and unifying the regulations governing European civilservants ;

5 Transmit in due course to the Assembly for itsOpinion the draft Statute prepared by the Working Party.