New school will train civil servants

By Martin Banks

Date: 13/05/04

PLANS have been unveiled for a European School of Administration to train the hundreds of civil servants who join EU institutions every year.

The school will provide introduction and staff management training and is expected to be up and running by the start of 2005, although courses could start as early as this summer.

Training courses will take place in existing facilities of the European Commission, Parliament, Council of Ministers and Court of Justice.

The school will come under the initial supervision of the European Personnel Selection Office. It will have about 20 staff who will be responsible for an annual budget of €4 million.

Approximately 1,000 new recruits join the EU institutions each year, undergoing up to 14 days induction training.

A spokesman for Neil Kinnock, the commissioner responsible for administrative reform, said "the school was designed to pool training resources of the EU institutions".

"The idea is to strive for a common administrative and management culture and to seek efficiency gains in the field of training," he added.

A European School of Administration will be created to provide training for the hundreds of civil servants who join European Union institutions each year. The school will have an annual budget of €4 million and will come under the initial supervision of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO).

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