European Personnel Selection Office , EPSO (Abkürzung)

The European Personnel Selection Office (Epso) was already occupying part of the building since July 2010.

She raised concerns about spending on EU orchestras and has called for cuts to be made to the European Personnel Selection Office.

European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO)

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is a recruitment office for the European Civil Service.

Huw Davies who heads up the Communications Team at the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) said:

The compliance rate of the European Commission was the same as the overall figure of 82%, while the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) scored 69%.

The recruitment of permanent scientific and administrative staff for the European Commission is organised by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) through open competitions.

It can be compared to the European Personnel Selection Office of the European Union or the Office of Personnel Management of the United States.

For more information on careers for British Graduates see the European Personnel Selection Office and The Cabinet Office's information on the European Fast Stream.

(PL) The European Personnel Selection Office, or EPSO, is an interinstitutional unit responsible for selection of staff for the European Union institutions.

The first of these is that the largest number of complaints submitted to the Ombudsman relates to the European Commission, the European Personnel Selection Office and the European Parliament.

The European Personnel Selection Office, among others, is undoubtedly a classic example of mismanagement, and it is at that and certain other agencies that we can begin to try to reduce Europe's administrative costs.

Specialist selection procedures for Economics, Finance, Law, Audit, Statistics, Linguists, Translators and Interpreters will be run by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) when required.

In July of this year, the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) published a competition in which, for the first time, candidates from all 25 Member States would be able to take the tests at the same time.

On 15 June, the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union issued its ruling in case F-35/08, Pachtitis/Commission, which principally concerned the authority of the European Personnel Selection Office to set admission tests.

I regret that the report by the Committee on Petitions refers us only to the European Personnel Selection Office, and not to the European Ombudsman, who until now has not carried out an ex officio scrutiny of his department.

With the President's permission I would like very briefly to assure Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou and the House that the European Personnel Selection Office is already within the Ombudsman's mandate and we devote a great deal of time to questions concerning recruitment.

On the certification procedure, Article 45a now makes provision, in Paragraph 2, for the European Personnel Selection Office to determine the contents of all examinations organised by the institutions in order to ensure that the basic requirements of a transfer are met in a harmonised and consistent manner.

(EL) Mr President, Mrs Panayotopoulos, I wish to assure you that the European Personnel Selection Office is already within the European Ombudsman's mandate and that this is a matter of particular concern to us, which we are monitoring very, very closely.

As a special branch of government under the Three Principles of the People, it may (retrospectively) be compared with the European Personnel Selection Office of the European Union or the Office of Personnel Management of the United States of America.

I therefore think that the Ombudsman's department is large enough in terms of staff and resources to handle 838 complaints, which, of course, mainly concern matters of maladministration by the Commission and the European Personnel Selection Office, and to a lesser degree the European Parliament and the Council.

Time spent in the EFS will certainly enhance your chances of success in the concours, but if you are seriously committed to an EU career, we recommend that you also keep an eye on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office, which recruits on behalf of the EU institutions.