Generation 2004 wishes to congratulate all Contract Agents 3a for their well-deserved advancement (‘reclassification [1]‘), together with the officials [2]and local agents in representations [3] who were promoted. We trust our webinar on drafting self-appraisals [4], our support to individual requests from colleagues to review their self-assessments and our advice on how to draft an appeal [5] helped in the reclassification exercise.
We remind you again that the June ‘appeal’ is a misnomer: it is a way of having access to an additional pot of promotions or reclassification; it is not calling into question a decision taken by your line manager. We understand that a significant number of appeals were accepted in 2024, which may signal a positive response from DGHR to the trade union and professional association (OSP) demand to increase the number of reclassified Contract Agents [6] and promoted AST/SC colleagues [7] and to reduce the average time required time for reclassification in each grade.
What is normal for promotion/reclassification?
| Staff | Appraisal | Reward possible? | Minimum time in grade (‘seniority’) to be eligible | Average speed of reward |
| Officials | Yes | Promotion [8] | 2 years | staff regulations Annex I.B [9] and our chart [10] with those percentages converted to years |
| Temporary agents [11] (2a and 2d) | Yes | Reclassification (JRC/GROW/RTD [12] only?) [*] | 2 years | Staff Regulations Annex I.B [9] |
| Temporary agents (2b, 2c, 2e, 2f [13] ) | Yes | no[**] | Not applicable (N/A) | N/A |
| Contract Agents [14] 3a | Yes | reclassification [15] | 2 years | Page 3 of Ares(2021)2467829 – 12/04/2021 CSC note on CA 3a [16] |
| Contract Agents 3b [17] | Yes | no | ≥ 3 years | N/A |
Generation 2004 is always available to advise you and looks forward to the next evaluation exercise in 2025. Join us [4] to know how it works!
Congratulations!
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[*] There is a joint committee on reclassification (not promotion) for Temporary Agents (TAs) of JRC/GROW/RTD [18] only. We also see TAs with permanent contracts (yes, mental gymnastics are necessary here: to be permanently temporary) 2a and 2d [13] listed for reclassification.
[**] 16.01.2023 HR response to our questions on TAs: Conditions of Employment of Other Servants (CEOS [19]) (Article 15(2)) which states that only the provisions on annual reports [appraisal] from the Staff Regulations [20] (SR) (Article 43) apply by analogy to TAs. By contrast, there is no such provision concerning promotion (SR Article 45). This means that, in principle, TAs are not subject to promotion. This principle is confirmed in the case-law of the General Court (e.g. T-366/15 P [21], paragraph 48).