Translation of "Examen des fonctions des ressources humaines " (French → English) :

7. Stresses that a professional public administration is instrumental in the successful implementation of all other reforms; therefore welcomes the fact that the Civil Service Law has started to be implemented, and calls for its proper implementation to be pursued in order to enhance administrative capacities, depoliticise public administration and fight corruption in the civil service, to strengthen meritocracy in appointments, promotions and dismissals, to increase the efficiency, transparency, accountability, professionalism and financial sustainability of the civil service, and to enhance good governance at all levels; calls for a strengthening ...[+++] of human resources management, an evaluation system for civil servants and independent monitoring of the implementation of civil service legislation; encourages the finalisation of a comprehensive public administration reform strategy and the continued promotion of depolarisation and knowledge of EU law and decision-making processes; stresses the need to enhance public integrity, to improve public services and to manage public resources more effectively; calls for improved public access to services and information; welcomes in this regard the new law on access to information; calls for a strengthening of the institution of the Ombudsman by giving appropriate follow-up to its findings and recommendations;

7. Stresses that a professional public administration is instrumental in the successful implementation of all other reforms; therefore welcomes the fact that the Civil Service Law has started to be implemented, and calls for its proper implementation to be pursued in order to enhance administrative capacities, depoliticise public administration and fight corruption in the civil service, to strengthen meritocracy in appointments, promotions and dismissals, to increase the efficiency, transparency, accountability, professionalism and financial sustainability of the civil service, and to enhance good governance at all levels; calls for a strengthening ...[+++] of human resources management, an evaluation system for civil servants and independent monitoring of the implementation of civil service legislation; encourages the finalisation of a comprehensive public administration reform strategy and the continued promotion of depolarisation and knowledge of EU law and decision-making processes; stresses the need to enhance public integrity, to improve public services and to manage public resources more effectively; calls for improved public access to services and information; welcomes in this regard the new law on access to information; calls for a strengthening of the institution of the Ombudsman by giving appropriate follow-up to its findings and recommendations;

4. Notes the emphasis placed by the Commission on the need to ensure that the human resources available to it are sufficient to enable it to perform the tasks assigned to it; recalls that it was Parliament itself which, in paragraphs 2, 15, 18 and 25 of its resolution of 4 May 1999 on the accounts of the European Communites in respect of the 1996 financial year , asked the Commission to review its human resources management in the light of policy priorities after noting that a number of the problems pinpointed in the 1996 discharge were due to a shortage of human resources w ...[+++]hich had prompted the Commission to commit the mistake of delegating public administration prerogatives to external technical assistance offices;

The content of the handbook can of course be changed depending on the circumstances of the mission (duration, human resources, etc.) and the national administration involved (organisation, infrastructure, etc.).

The slight decline in the number of inspections from 1999 was the result of the transfer in July of responsibility for ex-post inspections from Financial Control (DG Audit) to the Directorate-General for Employment, with the consequent redeployment of staff.

13. Calls on the Commission and Council in future to assess all relevant policy measures in the light of their impact on employment; demands also the Commission to undertake a review of the employment impact of all sections of the EU budget and in the same framework to gear more significantly the Structural Funds towards the prevention of long-term unemployment, the promotion of higher skills, entrepreneurship and adaptability; urges also Member states to devote at least 50% of their structural fund allocations towards the development of human ...[+++] resources;