Overview on staff reform

Reference Documents & useful links

Progress Report on the Commission Reform beyond the Reform mandate

	Reform of Staff Regulations - The process (2002-2004)
	The new Staff Regulations in force since 01.05.2004 (consolidated version – no legal value) Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 of 22 March 2004 amending the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Communities - 18.11.2003: Amended proposal for a Council Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of officials and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Communities (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 250 (2) of the EC-Treaty)/* COM/2003/0721 final - CNS 2002/0100 */ 22. 04. 2002: Proposal for a Council Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of officials and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Communities COM(2002) 213 final (April 2002) [PDF] Reforming the Commission - A White Paper - Part I (March 2000) [PDF - 283KB] Reforming the Commission - A White Paper - Part II - Action Plan (March 2000) [PDF - 337KB] Communication from the Commission - Completing the reform mandate: progress report and measures to be implemented in 2004/* COM/2004/0093 final */ Progress Review of Reform (January 2003) [PDF]
	A Culture based on service
	Access to Commission internal documents (December 2001) Towards the e-Commission: implementation strategy 2001-2005 Code of Good Administrative Behaviour for Staff of the European Commission in their Relations with the Public (October 2000)
	Ethics
	Code of conduct for Commissioners
	Setting priorities and allocating resources
	Recent legislation - ES - DA - DE - EL - EN - FR - IT - NL - PT - SV - FI Communication from the Commission : A new type of office for managing support and administrative tasks at the European Commission COM (2002) 264(01) (28/05/2002) [PDF] Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the Ombudsman establishing a European Communities Recruitment Office COM(2002) 126 (March 2002) [PDF] Communication from the Commission : Management of Community programmes by networks of national agencies COM(2001) 648 (November 2001) [PDF] Implementing activity based management in the Commission (July 2001) [PDF - 198KB] Communication from the Commission : Externalisation of the management of Community programmes including presentation of a framework regulation for a new type of executive agency COM(2000) 788 final (December 2000) [PDF]
	Human Resources
	Commission Decision of 27 February 2004 concerning the amendment of decision C(2002) 1559 of 30 April 2002 amended by decision C(2003)406 of 31 January 2003 laying down rules on the secondment of National Experts to the Commission - ES - DA - DE - EL - EN - FR - IT - NL - PT - SV - FI Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 490/2002 of 18 March 2002 amending the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities as regards the length of contracts of auxiliary staff Official Journal L 077 , 20/03/2002 P. 0001 - 0001 An administration at the service of half a billion Europeans - Guide to Staff Reform (2002) Available in : de en fr [HTML] da de el en es fi fr it nl pt sv [PDF] Comparative study on the remuneration of the officials of the European Institutions (June 2000) [PDF - 70KB]
	Sound financial management
	Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities Reference documents on Financial Management and Control Reference documents on Internal auditing
	The Operation of the Commission
	Rules of procedure of the Commission - modified on the 29th of November 2000 [PDF - 123KB] Groups of Commissioners [PDF - 23KB] and composition [PDF - 10KB] Internal co-ordination [PDF - 22KB]