Attestation - Committee of the Regions

Opinion of 29 November 2007 on a notification for prior checking concerning the "attestation procedure" case (Case 2007-352)

The Committee of the Regions (COR) is organising a selection procedure for officials authorised to follow the attestation exercise. The purpose of the data processing is to select officials serving in categories C or D before 1 May 2004 who may become members of the assistants' function group without career restriction.
The attestation procedure comprises three stages: publication of a call for applications; establishment of a list of applicants admitted to the attestation procedure; attestation on posts recognised as "administrative assistant" level. Consideration is given to criteria linked to merit, level of training, seniority and professional experience.
The main recommendations issued by the EDPS in his opinion on attestation relate to the time limit for storage of data collected in the personal file, the adequacy of security measures attached to this storage and information to the data subjects.