THE ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

The civil servants of the European Union represent the people who have been appointed to work in the permanent department of an institution of the European Union, according to a written document issued by an authority invested by the respective institution with such powers. Their juridic regime understood as the sum of all the rights and obligations they have in what concerns their relationship with the European Union and its institutions has been established by the European Community Civil Service Status adopted on February 29th, 19681, being amended several times. Therefore, the Regulations adopted by the European Union Council of March 22nd, 2004, at the proposal of the European Commission set forth even a new career system for the European public servants. The provisions of the status also apply for the people appointed by the community institutions, people that have been generically called ”agents”, which means that institutions such as: The European Economic and Social Committee; the European Committee of the Regions; the European Union Mediator or the European Data Protection Supervisor are assimilated, from this point of view, into the institutions of the European Union. The state forbids any sort of discrimination whatsoever, such as the discrimination based on sex, race, colour, social or ethnic origin, genetic characteristics, language, religion, political opinion or beliefs or any other opinion, affiliation to a national minority, wealth, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation. Another new aspect related to the enforcement of the status is that the non-marital partnership is regarded and treated in the same way marriage is. An extremely important significance for the activity and moral status of the European Union public servants is rendered to the European Code of good Administrative Behaviour. This document was proposed by the Eurpean Mediator and was approved of on September 6th, 2001, by means of a resolution of the European Parliament; it consists of a set of behaviour rules which the community institutions, the administrations as well as the public servants have to comply with, in what concerns their relationship with the public.