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The Impact Reform of the Staff Regulations in Making the Commission a More Modern and Efficient Organisation: An Insider's Perspective

Coull, Janet and Lewis, Charlie. (2003) The Impact Reform of the Staff Regulations in Making the Commission a More Modern and Efficient Organisation: An Insider's Perspective. EPIAScope, 2003 (3). pp. 2-9.

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    [Introduction]. The European Commission is an administratively well established organisation, starting as it did in 1957 with the involvement of just six Member States and now looking towards its fifth accession wave in May 2004, which will take it to 25 Member States. Unlike most domestic administrations the Commission has grown massively both in terms of size and responsibilities over the past five decades. The volume of financial transactions in which the Commission has been involved, for example, increased from a few thousand per year in the 1960s, to 60,000 by the late 1980s, to 620,000 by the late 1990s, and now easily surpasses 1,000,000 transactions per year. However, despite the scale of change, the Commission’s organisational systems underwent very few changes over the years, and human resource policies, developed in the 1950s and 1960s for a much smaller institution, hardly altered.

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    Item Type: Article
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > institutional development/policy > general
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > European Commission
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > institutional development/policy > historical development of EC (pre-1986)
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Journals > European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) > EIPASCOPE
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 02 Apr 2006
    Page Range: pp. 2-9
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 17:39
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5921

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