Free legal advice everyday by phone or email

FREE LEGAL ADVICE EVERYDAY 

by phone or email

 In order to be able to respond concretely to individual cases that cannot be dealt with in a collective manner, please note that FREE LEGAL ADVICE is now available  to answer all your statutory questions and more.

Our specialist lawyer, Mr Sébastien Orlandi,  will be on duty EVERYDAY by phone or email.

Mr Orlandi has developed an expertise in:

• EU CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND EU INSTITUTIONS LAW

• AND MORE...

Should you wish to use this service - open to members and future members - and get an appointment, please do not hesitate to contact our secretariat ( by e-mail:  JRC-RD-ISPRA@ec.europa.eu )

All our services are COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE FOR ALL OUR MEMBERS AND FUTURE MEMBERS, as well as for their family members.

Please be assured that we will stay by your side all along, and support you in any action, information, decisions… you might want to (under) take.

During the last 3 years, we have been able to deliver nearly 1,200 individual legal consultations:

Legal assistance and representation in the pre-litigation procedures (requests for assistance, complaints, meetings of the inter-service group) and litigation (appeal to the General Court of the European Union)

Nature of the cases handled: assistance on any question concerning the career and/or the administrative life of the agent

• competitions and selection procedures: requests for reconsideration of the jury’s decisions (conditions of admission deemed unfilled, results of talent screener, etc.), recourse to the courts;
• appointment and recruitment: classification in grade or function group (recognition of diplomas, recognition of professional experience), incidents during the probationary period (accompaniment before the reporting committee);
• ethical and disciplinary: IDOC investigations, assistance to the appointing authority and the Disciplinary Board (unauthorized external activities, fraud, harassment, conflicts of interest, etc.);
• appraisal and promotion: appeal to the appeal assessor in case of unsatisfactory reports, complaints and appeals to the Tribunal regarding the appraisal and / or the promotion;
• remuneration: examination of your entitlement to the various allowances (daily, installation, expatriation, foreign residence, etc.) and to family allowances (household allowances, school allowances, etc.), complaints and appeals if necessary;
• social security: questions relating to the methods for calculating the retirement / survivors’ pension, appeals against the decisions of transfer of pension rights, setting disability, recognition of the occupational origin of the illness / disability;
• temporary and contractual agents: specific problems for agents under contract (succession of contracts, non-renewal, dismissal, payment of the severance grant, etc.);
• delegations: special issues related to posting in a third country (eg. living allowance, travel time, annual leave, etc.).

The R&D Ispra Team