Action plan buildings 100&101

Following our initiative  about all the problems related to the new buildings 100&101, please find the action plan provided by the ad-hoc working group.
A series of remediative measure is going to be put into place at end of the year.

Annual Travel Allowance: new art. 90

New Art. 90 Templates are available for complaints against the reduction or elimination of the Annual Travel Allowance!


During March 2014, many of you made a complaint against the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance.
We thank you once again for your trust!


In fact, we had considered that, in order to ensure the admissibility of Article 90§2 complaints regarding both the travelling time and the travel expenses, it was important to make them immediately after the en­try into force of the new Staff Regulations.

With its replies, the Appointing Authority is considering that the complaint regarding the reduction of travelling time is admissible.

On the contrary, for travel expenses, the relevant individual decision that a complaint can be made against is the salary slip of the month of June.

Therefore it is essential to introduce a new art. 90 complaint concerning travel expenses.

Various new templates, covering a range of different situations, and contesting the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance are now available on our dedicated website 

Deadline: within 3 months of receiving your payslip of June 2014. To avoid problems, we advise lodg­ing the appeal before the end of August 2014.


COMPLAINT TEMPLATES  → CLICK HERE

Internal competitions: the truth will out!

The publication of the results of the AST 3/4 and AD 10/12 competitions has shown what R&D had forecast since the beginning (link 1 - link 2).  Although the idea of these internal competitions was originally conceived as a method to alleviate the injustice that  POST 2004 colleagues suffered regarding their grading on recruitment, these competitions turned out to be no more than an enormous charade, a masquerade to guarantee/offer permanent AD positions to Temporary Agents in the Cabinets.
Enormous, for it concerns thousands of POST 2004 colleagues, who, once again, have been badly let down.
Charade, for these unofficial "promotions" have simply been removed from the quotas of the normal promotion exercise to allow these nominations to take place.
Charade, for the nature of the selection test and the choice of the questions showed a massive bias in favour of the Cabinet staff.
R&D's critical view on the subject was perceived at first as a smear campaign… but now the truth is out: out of the 40 laureates of the AD12 competition: 15 come from a Cabinet, to which one may add 5 Temporary Agents "linked to a cabinet" and one Temporary Agent working at EPSO… i.e. more than half the laureates on this list!           
Guess how many laureates came from BUDG COMP, DGT, DIGIT, EAC, ECFIN, EMPL, ENER, ENTR, HOME, HR, MARE, MOVE, OIB, OIL, OLAF, OP, PMO, RTD, SANCO, SCIC and TAXUD? A grand total of none! Yes, you read it right: zero! Despite the fact that the population covered by this competition in these DGs represented a few thousand potential candidates. While the Cabinets, with only a hundred people, has 21 laureates.
R&D is not here to persecute the Cabinets, nor to deny the merits of Cabinet staff. Through these messages about golden parachutes, the internal competitions, the eligibility of ALL AD12/13 of the cabinets to the promotions exercise, R&D merely intends to defend the rights and expectations of all staff, and not to remain silent on any of the dodgy dealings that we are made aware of. European Commission careers cannot be handled like the World Cup, where the officials would be the audience, who pay dear for a ticket and end up with a slow career, while the phony Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo from the Cabinets get a penalty kick into an open net!
In the midst of this economic, political and institutional crisis, when citizens are being squeezed from every angle, the last thing they need to see is the European Commission following such bad personnel management practices. Not only does this maladministration badly impact the staff, but it also negatively affects the European spirit and jeopardizes the reputation and perspectives of the Union.
R&D commits to contact as soon as possible the new president of the European Commission to ensure that the POST 2004 issue becomes one of the priorities of the new college.

Salary adaptation 2011 and 2012

The appeal template for the Art.90  relating to the 2011 and 2012 salary adaptations is available now in English and in French at this link.

The deadline for lodging an appeal is 31/07/2014.

Art. 90 for career blockage

Many of you have lodged a complaint "Career blockage" at the end of March 2014. We felt at that time, that it was necessary, to avoid any risk relating to the admissibility of the complaints, to introduce directly against Article 45 of the new Staff Regulations  a complaint on the basis of Article 90(2).
The Commission officials concerned have found, from 14 April 2014 on, a mention in the SYSPER2 file showing a career blockage.
This mention may be regarded as a decision of individual application of the appointing authority also challengeable.
As a precautionary measure, it seems necessary to also lodge a complaint against this decision.
We draw your attention to the fact that such a complaint must be filed no later than 14 July 2014.
You will find at these links (template AD12 and 13 - template AST9 - cover page) the templates of complaint adapted for both AD 12 - AD 13 and AST9 colleagues.
Simply fill in this template and send it, accompanied by a "print screen" of your SYSPER2 file, to the functional mailbox HR MAIL D2 by 14 July at the latest together with the enclosed art. 90 filled-in template.
Thank you again for your trust!

Deals & Discounts

This section will show deals and discounts available to our members.

We are working on it, stay tuned!

Appeal against non proposition for promotion

Today propositions for promotion have been published in SysPer2. 

You have now 5 working days to introduce an appeal if you think you were unjustly not proposed for promotion, although you fulfill all criteria according to Article 45 of the Staff Regulations with regard to:


  • seniority in grade
  • merits as reflected in your evaluation report
  • responsibilities
  • languages used in the service
Although each situation is different, R&D has listed some of the most typical cases that might give you reason to file an appeal with the Promotion Committee. You can download the templates in Word format and use them to prepare your text.

How to use the templates for appeal?
  • Keep it short and to the point (1 page maximum)
  • Bear in mind that the Promotion Committees have access to your evaluation and promotion file
  • you therefore do not need to repeat details that become clear from them