Ag.no. 15 Lessons from the 2015 A65 exercise No document Ag.no. 15 Lessons from the 2015 A65 exercise Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations Meeting in Luxembourg 21st & 22nd March 2016

Content of this presentation Punctuality of transmission and validation Use of eDAMIS for SRQ transmission Completeness of supplied data Sample coverage (of population) Coverage of categories AD/AST/SC See also agenda points 13, 16 and 17

Punctual transmission 31st July target date for SRQ submission was largely achieved… …except by EE, IT, LU, MT, AT, SK, FI RO: no data at all  ESTAT calculation, based on forecast figures and other sources HR: (new to exercise)  detailed data not included pending further work on country manual

Punctual validation No explicit validation target date, although outline timetable in manual Doc.A6465/14/26rev "Just-in-time" production: impossible to advance reporting and validation timetable any earlier By middle October 2015 calculations finalised for all countries, and explicit validations obtained except from IE (21.10) and AT (17.11) Eurostat report launched 16.10.2015 Countries in red: sample countries that were late Poland: outstanding query does not significantly affect value calculated for this period

Use of eDAMIS by national delegates eDAMIS is the approved tool for data transmission to Eurostat It was used by most countries for the 2015 annual exercise… …except: BG, EE, IE, LV, LU, AT, RO, SK eDAMIS training is possible

Completeness of supplied data Remuneration data supplied for upper/median/lower steps in grade, for 22 countries. For remaining 6 countries, the non supply is linked to specific national circumstances: No data for upper and lower steps for DK, SK, SE No data for median step in grade for IT, LU, UK Decisions recorded in country manuals

Sample coverage (of population) Sample for which data supplied represents 100% of central government population except for : % 90-100 CZ (92%), CY (96%), LV (97%), HU (99%), PT (93%) 75-90 ES (88%), AT (86%), 50-75 UK (69%) < 50 SK (27%), FI (8%)

Coverage of categories AD/AST/SC Equivalent national civil servants for all categories found in most Member States, except: No AD - No AST PL No SC BE, BG, DK, EL, FR, LT, AT, FI, UK

Ratio AD:AST:SC compared to PY… Member State July 2014 July 2015 Reason for change Impact on country SI BE 46 : 54 : - - DE 48 : 41 : 11 47 : 41 : 12 ES 43 : 35 : 22 FR 23 : 77 : - 33 : 67 : - New personnel database -0.1 IT 31 : 62 : 7 LU 41 : 53 : 6 41 : 52 : 7 NL 37 : 60 : 3 48 : 49 : 3 Grade 10 from AST to AD -0.2 AT 18 : 82 : - 18 : 82 : - PL 86 : - : 14 SE 81 : 14 : 5 81 : 14 : 5 UK 6 : 94 : - 7 : 93 : -

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