Certification procedure - Parliament

Opinion of 6 June 2007 on the notification for prior checking regarding the "certification procedure" dossier (Case 2007-168)
By Bureau Decision of 26 September 2005 the European Parliament adopted the arrangements for implementation of the certification procedure. Article 45a of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities, as amended by Regulation No 723/2004, enables officials in function group AST to be appointed to a post in function group AD on condition that, firstly, they have been selected by the institution to take part in a training programme, secondly, they have completed the training programme and, thirdly, they have passed examinations demonstrating that they have successfully taken part in the training programme.
The main recommendations made by the EDPS in the context of his opinion on the certification procedure concern the storage of data and the information supplied to data subjects.