Attestation procedure - Court of Justice

Opinion of 3 October 2007 on the notification for prior checking concerning the attestation procedure (Case 2007-435)

The Court of Justice adopted the implementing rules for the attestation procedure by decision of the Court's Administrative Committee on 15 June 2005. Officials employed in categories C and D on 1 May 2004 are likely to have promotions capped at grades AST 7 and 5 respectively. These ceilings may be abolished, however, by an "attestation" procedure. This procedure is based on criteria relating to seniority, experience, merit and level of training and depends on the availability of posts in the AST function group.

The main recommendations made by the EDPS in his opinion on the attestation procedure concern data storage and the provision of information to data subjects.