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produced successful candidates suited to the jobs offered by the institutions.

was accompanied by effective communications to attract sufficient candidates.

was planned adequately to take account of EU institutions’ recruitment needs.

In particular, we examined whether the EPSO selection process: The objective of our audit was to assess whether the EPSO selection process has enabled the EU institutions to meet their recruitment needs for all types of staff.

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Our report provides further analysis, conclusions and recommendations of relevance for a possible significant update of the selection process. In this context, EPSO’s management board launched an interinstitutional reflection group on the selection process in the second half of 2019. The language regime under which competitions operated has been challenged in court, and the EU institutions have begun to question the effectiveness of the selection procedure. IIIĮPSO’s competition-based selection process has been running in its current form since 2012.

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The selection process has three phases: planning the competitions for the coming year, assessing the candidates in each competition through a series of tests, and publishing the final lists of successful candidates of each competition. EPSO runs two main types of competition: large competitions for entry-level position for candidates with generalist profiles, such as public administrators, lawyers, economists, translators and secretarial assistants, and smaller competitions for candidates with more specific profiles and experience. IIĮPSO is responsible for attracting and selecting suitable candidates in sufficient numbers to enable the institutions to meet their recruitment needs.

These new staff members are selected from the successful candidates of open competitions run by EPSO, the EU civil service’s personnel selection office, in cooperation with the EU institutions. Every year, the EU institutions recruit around 1 000 new permanent staff members for long-term careers, from more than 50 000 applicants.