1. Ag.no. 15 Lessons from the 2016 A65 exercise
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Ag.no. 15 Lessons from the 2016 A65 exercise
Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations
Meeting in Luxembourg 28th & 29th March 2017

2. 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
Improvements for next exercise…

3. Punctual transmission
31st July target date for SRQ submission was largely achieved…
…except for 9 countries (i.e. CZ, EE, IE, EL, MT, AT, PT, SK, FI)
No data for HR and RO

4. Punctual validation Outline timetable in manual Doc.A6465/14/26rev
By mid-October 2016 calculations finalised for all countries, and explicit validations obtained from the delegates. Tacit validation applied for PL and UK.
Eurostat report launched

5. Use of eDAMIS by national delegates
eDAMIS is the approved tool for data transmission to Eurostat
Increase in number of countries which used eDamis for the 2016 annual exercise…
… only EE, AT, FI, UK transmitted by
(for comparison: previous year no eDamis use for 8 countries)
Reason for non-use: change in delegate (delay in permission)

6. Completeness of supplied data
Remuneration data supplied for upper/median/lower steps in grade, for 21 countries
now including SK following change in sample
For remaining 5 countries, the non-supply is linked to specific national circumstances:
No data for upper and lower steps for DK and SE
No data for median step in grade for IT and LU
UK: median calculation was supplied subsequently

7. Sample coverage (of population)
Sample for which data supplied represents 100% of central government population, except for :
Threshold of 75% coverage should be applied (see SRQ guidelines). %
90-100
CZ, CY, LV, HU, PT
75-90
ES, AT
50-75
UK (±68%)
< 50
SK (±28%), FI (±10%)

8. ESA 2010
Table 1. Staff
Central government staff broken down by category and by grade
Reference period …………………………………………………………………….
Category
Grade
Sample
Reference population **
ESA central govt. +
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
AD *
AD-total
AST *
AST-total
SC *
SC-total
Total
Since SRQ 2014
SRQ Guidelines: "permanent statutory staff of the central government (sub-sector S.1311 of the ESA European System of Accounts)".
2016 exercise: < 50% of MS provided info – which means calculation of Control Indicator required by the Staff Regulations is less accurate!

9. 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, LU, AT, FI, UK

10. Ratio AD:AST:SC compared to PY…
Member State
July 2015
July 2016
Reason for change BE
46 : 54 : -
46 : 54 : - - DE
47 : 41 : 12
48 : 41 : 11 ES
43 : 35 : 22 FR
33 : 67 : -
33 : 67 : - IT
31 : 62 : 7
31 : 62 : 7 LU
41 : 52 : 7
47 : 53 : -
New classification system NL
48 : 49 : 3
50 : 47 : 3 AT
18 : 82 : -
18 : 82 : - PL
86 : - : 14
88 : - : 12 SE
81 : 14 : 5
82 : 13 : 5 UK
7 : 93 : -
6 : 94 : -

11. Improvements for this year's exercise…
Staff numbers – most recent figures (= Table 1)
+ column 'ESA 2010' – essential for calculation of Control Indicator "compensation of employees"
Components of salary (= Table 3)
Example of your calculations (= Table 4)
Working time (= Table 5)
References to legislative texts – even in your own language (= Table 6)
Use eDamis for data transmission – goal: 100%

12. Thank you for your attention !