Article 5 F1

F21.

The posts covered by the Staff Regulations shall be classified, according to the nature and importance of the duties to which they relate, in an administrators’ function group (hereinafter ‘AD’), an assistants’ function group (hereinafter ‘AST’) and a secretaries and clerks’ function group (hereinafter ‘AST/SC’).

Function group AD shall comprise twelve grades, corresponding to managerial, conceptual and analytical as well as to linguistic and scientific duties. Function group AST shall comprise eleven grades, corresponding to executive and technical duties. Function group AST/SC shall comprise six grades, corresponding to clerical and secretarial duties.

Appointment shall require at least:

(a)

in function group AST F3and function group AST/SC:

(i)
a level of post-secondary education attested by a diploma, or
(ii)
a level of secondary education attested by a diploma giving access to post-secondary education, and appropriate professional experience of at least three years, or
(iii)
where justified in the interests of the service, professional training or professional experience of an equivalent level.

(b)

in function group AD for grades 5 and 6:

(i)
a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma, or
(ii)
where justified in the interest of the service, professional training of an equivalent level.

(c)

in function group AD for grades 7 to 16:

(i)
a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma when the normal period of university education is four years or more, or
(ii)
a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma and appropriate professional experience of at least one year when the normal period of university education is at least three years, or
(iii)
where justified in the interests of the service, professional training of an equivalent level.

A table showing types of posts is given in Annex I, Section A. By reference to that table, the appointing authority of each institution may define in more detail the duties and powers attaching to each type of post after consulting the Staff Regulations Committee.

Identical conditions of recruitment and service career shall apply to all officials belonging to the same function group.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 of 22 March 2004 amending the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Communities.
F2: Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union.
F3: Inserted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union.

Notes on Attachment

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1080/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities.