Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals and country assessments Doc.A6465/17/10 Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals and country assessments Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations Luxembourg 28th and 29th March 2017

Content of this presentation Follow up to discussion at A6465WG 2015 Progress report with detailed country manuals Revised publication proposal Next steps

Reminder of previous discussions Agreement on country manual structure (2011 WG) National data on public sector staff numbers Description of national remuneration system (gross salary components) Description of statutory deductions (personal income tax, social security, occupation pension contribution, etc.) Example calculation from basic salary to gross salary to net salary Iterative drafting process requiring collaboration from you 22 drafts presented at 2015 WG

Progress with country manuals - situation at March 2017 Sample of 11 Other Member States Approved BE, DE, FR, IT, NL, AT, PL, UK CY, PT 10 Approval requested IE, HU, MT 3 Ongoing ES, LU BG, CZ 4 Comments requested SE DK, EL, RO, SI 5 Work started EE, HR, LV, LT, SK, FI 6

Country assessments Inspired from the approach used by ECP team for price statistics, and by other domains Agreed in 2016 WG Short summary document: Validation date for detailed inventory Brief organisational description (main sources) Review of most recent SRQ submission Comments about data quality on staff numbers Comments about data quality on Gross salary Comments about data quality on statutory deductions Other quality action points, if any

Statistics Explained – Civil Servants Remuneration Country assessments Available for 9 countries in (doc.A6465/17/10) Proposal: Publish Country Assessments via Statistics Explained – Civil Servants Remuneration within Eurostat's website (cf. item 14.1 of agenda.

Country assessments Any remarks or questions? Q: Do you agree with the dissemination of the Country Assessments via Statistics Explained?